Jean Shepherd

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film

The stories that inspired a popular holiday film chronicle an American family's trials and joys in a small town in Depression-era Indiana, capturing Ralphie Potter's campaign to get a Red Ryder air rifle for Christmas, his duel with bullies, and other epi

A Christmas Story

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Alabama

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

All Others Pay Cash

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed 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. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. In God We Trust , Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage "You can never go back." Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth. A comic genius who bridged 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.

In God We Trust

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Pages yellowing 

Doubleday, 1980, 350 pages

With hilarious precision, Jean Shepherd remembers teenage survival in the Midwest: the almighty sacrifice of the Easter ham, taffy apple binges at the state fair, the gut-wrenching playground notist s Delbe Bunges the oemation prosing don surrounding the unapproachable Daphne Bigelow, and the sweaty glow of Wanda Hickey at the Junior Prom. These are some of the archetypal legends of childhood that Shepherd evokes from his nostalgic Indiana muse. A universal orchestration of Midwestern life and puberty rites, Wancia Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters is the sweet, cacophonous roar of youth tempered with the wit and enduring honesty of a grown boy. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

And Other Disasters

A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story.

"Mr. Shepherd has the true satirist's grip on his pen: he is humorous, sympathetic,and ironic all at once."--Boston Globe

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 represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.

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 and the almighty sacrifice of the Easter ham, to taffy-apple binges at the state fair and the supernatural glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd's (and everyone else's) junior prom--these are some of the archetypal legends of childhood that Shepherd evokes from his nostalgic Indiana muse.

A timeless and enduring classic, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories captures the sweet cacophonous roar of youth tempered with the wit and honesty of a grown boy

Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories

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Michigan

West Virginia

Massachusetts

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

A Fistful of Fig Newtons 

Cover has scuffs, creases,discoloration and smudges . The inside of this book has liquid damage , discoloration and creases 

Wanda Hickey’s night of golden memories 

Virginia

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