Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Shepherd, Jean |
| Publisher: | Crown |
| Date: | 10/28/2003 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book thatinspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox.
The holiday film A Christmas Story,first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in statureand fame with each succeeding affectionate, wacky, and wryly realisticportrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-townDepression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equalto It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.
This edition of A ChristmasStory gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humorthat Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring is young RalphieParker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine;his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; theunleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bulliesScut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaignto get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot rangemodel air cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shootyour eye out, kid”?
The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously publishedin the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’sNight of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistiblepiece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heartand tickle the funny bone.
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