A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious

A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americanaâ‚¬"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 familyâ‚¬s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to Itâ‚¬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 Parkerâ‚¬s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and fatherâ‚¬s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphieâ‚¬s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphieâ‚¬s unstoppable campaign to get Santaâ‚¬"or anyone elseâ‚¬"to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, â‚¬Å“Youâ‚¬ll shoot your eye out, kidâ‚¬Â?

The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickeyâ‚¬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.
Country USA
Brand CROWN
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
Color White
ReleaseDate 2003-10-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780767916226

Country	USA
Brand	CROWN
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2003-10-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780767916226

A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film

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