Pages yellowing Doubleday, 1980, 350 pages With hilarious precision, Jean Shepherd remembers teenage survival in the Midwest: the almighty sacrifice of the Easter ham, taffy apple binges at the state fair, the gut-wrenching playground notist s Delbe Bunges the oemation prosing don surrounding the unapproachable Daphne Bigelow, and the sweaty glow of Wanda Hickey at the Junior Prom. These are some of the archetypal legends of childhood that Shepherd evokes from his nostalgic Indiana muse. A universal orchestration of Midwestern life and puberty rites, Wancia Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters is the sweet, cacophonous roar of youth tempered with the wit and enduring honesty of a grown boy.

ISBN: 9780385116329