From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.
He passed away in 1999..
About the Author: For many years a cult radio and cabaret personality in New York City, JEAN Shepherd was the creator of the popular film A Christmas Story, which is based on his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey\'s Night of Golden Memories and has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network.
It is a brilliant comic assessment of American life--all of them delivered in Jean Shepherd\'s witty, classy, unforgettable style.
A Fistful of Fig Newtons is classic Jean Shepherd--sidesplittingly funny and sardonically irreverent.
But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillor-like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of nostalgic Americans.
Jean Shepherd was one of America\'s favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story.
From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere
