Bibliograph

Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories, and other disasters, Jean Shepherd

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Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories, and other disasters, Jean Shepherd

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

768772415

Responsibility statement

Jean Shepherd

Sub title

and other disasters

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. From the Trade Paperback edition

Table Of 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

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