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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385116329
ISBN: 0385116322
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1976-01-16
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: 1982-10-01
Studio: Broadway
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Summary: Funny
Comment: Funny but a little dated. Takes place in a quieter time in America. I recommend this book.
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Summary: No one does creative American nostalgia better
Comment: Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) is a writer, humorist, and journalist. Many of you will recognize him as the author of the short stories on which the popular perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story is based. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories is a collection of several of Mr. Shepherd's reminiscences that originally appeared in Playboy in the late 1960s and early 1970s, of which the Wanda Hickey essay is the final installment. Right from the gitgo, reading the titles, you realize you're in for a superior reading experience, as each of them conveys an American-original young-male sprout's world in all its complexity.
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For my complete review of this book and for other book and movie
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Brian Wright
Copyright 2008
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Summary: Bravo!
Comment: What else could I add to these reviews except to echo the testimonials that Shepherd and his characters created the ONLY time that a piece of literature ever caused me to involuntarily burst out laughing. Bravo Jean, and R.I.P.
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Summary: Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
Comment: Jean Shepard is without a doubt the most hilarious writer that America can claim! It is impossible to read any of his books without a belly laugh and for those of us born before television arrived, he captures the essence of sitting in front of the radio painfully waiting for DRINK OVALTINE codes! He is a ray of sunshine for all who read his books...and they are ALL worth reading!
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Summary: Talking and Remembering
Comment: Jean Shepard contributed to our culture with the stories that resulted in "A Christmas Story." He's hard to dislike, for that work alone.
Here, though, you get more exposure to Jean's other side. He is cynical, and not all that charming about it. He stereotypes, and it reminds us of how we used to be about assuming traits in people based on their race or ethnic origin. He excuses a lot of pretty bad behavior and, worse, expects us to agree with him that it is cute.
Well, that's the bad stuff. The good stuff is that he still has a grasp of American rhythym that's hard to find most places. You will enjoy his fresh view of our experiences, and, if you overlook your potential reactions like the foregoing paragraph describes, you'll hear an authentic descriptive voice which is now gone.
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