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Chargement... Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memoriespar Jean Shepherd
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is the book that, in part, "A Christmas Story" is based on. I loved the familiar stories about when the Ralphie character was young. But I couldn't really get into the later stories of him as a teenager and adult, I found them kind of tedious. I guess that's why there was no sequel to the movie. ( ) Shepherd penned many gems of humorous lit, and a mash-up of his memoirs formed the basis for the cloying movie A Christmas Story (not a fan :/ ). The books make it more apparent that he was writing about a grittier working-class world, one based on family dysfunction among the steel mills of Gary, Ind. That truth makes the soaring humor even more astounding and cathartic. An absolute masterpiece that, I happen to know, helped pull at least one reader out of general spiritual malaise. Jean Shepherd's stories are undeniably funny and he's a master of vividly describing the life of a kid growing up in the Midwest in the 30s but they're best taken in small doses. Together, they can become slightly repetitive. Still, some of Shepherd's lines are worthy of writing down and/or memorizing and Ralphie will always be a beloved home-grown character for readers in Northwest Indiana. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story. 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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