[Shepherd's Pie 02] • Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories

[Shepherd's Pie 02] • Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories
Authors
Shepherd, Jean
Publisher
Broadway Books
Tags
humour
ISBN
9780307575364
Date
1971-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
2.82 MB
Lang
en
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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.

*From the Trade Paperback edition.*