{"product_id":"9780385116329","title":"Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Diasters","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition.\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories\u003c\/b\u003e is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites, from the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus, to the supernal glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd's (and everyone else's) junior prom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comic genius who bridges 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\/Archetype","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48101100781808,"sku":"9780385116329","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385116329_p0.jpg?v=1763693792","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385116329","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}