A Christmas Story
Shepherd, Jean
Hardcover
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BOOK SUMMARY
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americanathe book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana. The book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.
The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American familys typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to Its a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.
This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parkers shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and fathers pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphies duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphies unstoppable campaign to get Santaor anyone elseto give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, Youll shoot your eye out, kid?
The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickeys Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.
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ISBN: 0767916220
ISBN(13-digit): 9780767916226
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2003050249
Book Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 131
Paper Weight (lb): .5113 lb
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