In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

The beloved, bestselling classic that became the movie,Â A CHRISTMAS STORY -- humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed paperback edition.

Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.

In God We Trust, 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-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth.

A comic genius who bridged the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Broadway Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780385021746
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1991-04-28
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884864700500
EANs 0884864700500

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Broadway Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780385021746
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1991-04-28
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884864700500
EANs	0884864700500

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

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