{"product_id":"9780385021746","title":"In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beloved, bestselling classic that became the movie, \u003ci\u003eA CHRISTMAS STORY \u003c\/i\u003e— humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed paperback edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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. \u003ci\u003eIn God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash\u003c\/i\u003e represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn God We Trust\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958798045424,"sku":"9780385021746","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385021746_p0.jpg?v=1763694321","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385021746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}