A Christmas Story

The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film

Jean Shepherd

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Doubleday & Co Inc.
15 August 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana--the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana-the book that

inspired 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 stature

and fame with each succeeding year.

Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic

portrayal of an American family's typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town

Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal

to It's 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

Parker'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; the

unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie's duel in the show with the odious bullies

Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie's unstoppable campaign

to get Santa-or anyone else-to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range

model air rifle.

Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, ""You'll 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 Hickey's

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.

By: Jean Shepherd
Imprint: Doubleday & Co Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9780767916226
ISBN 10: 0767916220
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 novels In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories, and which has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network. Jean Shepherd passed away in 1999.