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Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters Reissue edition
Jean Shepherd
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters Reissue edition
Jean Shepherd
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.
352 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 1, 1982 |
ISBN13 | 9780385116329 |
Publishers | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group I |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 137 × 209 × 19 mm · 311 g |
Language | English |
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