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A Christmas Story : The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film by Jean Shepherd (2003, Hardcover)

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0767916220
ISBN-13
9780767916226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2350760

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Book Title
Christmas Story : the Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
Author
Jean Shepherd
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Holidays, Family Life, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.H3964i5 2003b
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-050249
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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5 out of 5 stars
by frankie754Feb 09, 2008
Who's Better than Jean Shepherd?
Having been obsessed with A Christmas Story from the first time that it came out in the theater, I have ever version released on DVD and I have visited the house in Cleveland, Ohio. This is the most hilarious, memorable book that you will read. I would suggest it to anyone who has children so that they can read the incredibly intricate way in which Jean Shepherd uses language and to offer a glimpse into how things were back in the really good old days.
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by 190lxJan 11, 2019
Must read for fans of the movie: A Christmas Story
Great book! If you love the movie, you'll love this book!
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