Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
of Jean Shepherd
Series: Shepherd's Pie #2
Description
A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition.Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites, from the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus, to the supernal glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd's (and everyone else's) junior prom.A comic genius who bridges the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 352 pages
- Publisher Broadway Books
- Publication Date October 1st 1982
- First Publication 01/01/71
- Language English
- ISBN 9780385116329
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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