A Fistful of Fig Newtons
1st Edition
Published on 10. November 2010
304 pages
978-0-307-76870-4 (ISBN)
Description
From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.
Jean Shepherd was one of America's favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillor-like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of nostalgic Americans. A Fistful of Fig Newtons is classic Jean Shepherd-sidesplittingly funny and sardonically irreverent. It is a brilliant comic assessment of American life-all of them delivered in Jean Shepherd's witty, classy, unforgettable style.
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11/1987
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For many years a cult radio and cabaret personality in New York City, JEAN SHEPHERD was the creator of the popular film A Christmas Story, which is based on his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network. He passed away in 1999.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Author's Note
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Opening
- A Fistful of Fig Newtons or the Shoot-out in Room 303
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel
- The Mole People Battle the Forces of Darkness
- Marcel Proust Meets the New Jersey Tailgater, and Survives
- The Marathon Run of Lonesome Ernie, the Arkansas Traveler
- Sociology 101 (Hip Division)
- Lemons on the Grass, Alas
- The Lost Civilization of Deli
- The Whole Fun Catalog of 1929
- Lost at C
- Ellsworth Leggett and the Great Ice Cream War
- The Barbi Doll Celebrates New Year's
- Closing
- About the Author
