(hb; 1966)
From the back cover
“Shepherd’s wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage ‘You can never go back.’ Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood buddy—now local bartender—Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, adolescent failure in the arms of girls, and relives a fishing story of man against fish. From pop art to The World’s Fair, the subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply grounded in American Midwestern life. A wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth. For many years Jean Shepherd was a cult radio and cabaret personality in New York City, and the creator of the popular film A Christmas Story, which is based in part on this book and has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network.”
Review
Warm, witty, mixing childhood
wonder with brief adult-world (but still charming) cynicism, this chatty,
sometimes over-the-top revisiting-your-small-town back and forth between past
and present is a good, vivid read, with some zinger lines in the mix. Worth
reading, this.
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