Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories : and other disasters / Jean Shepherd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, Jean.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humorous stories, American.

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Humorous fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Broadway Books Trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Broadway Books, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The grandstand passion play of Delbert and the Bumpus hounds

County fair!

Scut Farkas and the murderous Mariah

Ollie Hopnoodle's haven of bliss

The star-crossed romance of Josephine Cosnowski

Daphne Bigelow and the spine-chilling saga of the snail-encrusted tinfoil noose

The return of the smiling Wimpy doll

Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories.

ISBN:

0385116322

9780385116329

OCLC:

51182071

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