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A Christmas Story
by Jean Shepherd
ISBN: 0767916220
ISBN-13: 9780767916226
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Jean Shepherd's classic holiday stories are the basis of a beloved 1983 film. Here they are gathered into a collection that includes Ralphie Parker and his decoder ring, the bullies who challenge him to an epic snowball fight, and his hopeless longing ("Please, Santa!") for a Red Ryder carbine action air rifle.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Pages: 131
Publisher's Notes
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 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.
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A Christmas Story
Shepherd, Jean
Bantam Dell Pub Group. Used - Like New. Condition: Near new: unread (may have publisher's mark or minor shelfwear).; bkcsd ( more information) Offered by Magers and Quinn Booksellers (United States)
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A Christmas Story
Shepherd, Jean
Broadway Books, 2003. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Clean, tight copy, apparently unread. 131 pp. ( more information) Offered by Taos Books (United States)
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A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
Jean Shepherd
Broadway, 2003-10-28. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Hardcover. Like new cover and text. Like new dust jacket with very minor shelfwear and very slight crease at bottom of front of jacket. Near Fine condition. Beautiful book.Email when shipped and free tracking information and delivery confirmation on domestic orders. No tracking or delivery confirmation available on international orders. ( more information) Offered by Powers Book Emporium (United States)
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Shepherd, Jean
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Broadway Books, 2003. NOT an ex library book, clean interior pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8 ". ( more information) Offered by Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller (United States)
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Shepherd, Jean
New York, New York: Broadway Books, 2003. Hardcover. New/New. ISBN: 0-7679-1622-0. ( more information) Offered by Adventures Underground (United States)
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A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film (Qty: 5)
Jean Shepherd
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