<![CDATA[A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film]]>

false <![CDATA[A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518676m/5319.jpg 5319 4 A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film. 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 family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’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 Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’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. 8779 28 10 2003 A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film total:173|5:62|4:70|3:32|2:7|1:2| 173 702 280 40 3 1 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 01:54:10 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:38:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 05:02:20 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 05:33:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 09:48:58 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 13:23:28 -0800 2009 many, many times each Christmas. It is a collection of essays that the movie was drawn from, so there are a few favorite scenes from the movie you won't find in the book and some scenes from the movie more fleshed out in the book. You coul...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 21:11:21 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 19:38:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 10:01:40 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:08:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 12:01:20 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 12:04:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 06 08:43:06 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 08:43:56 -0700 2008 A Christmas Story is a series of semi-autobiographical short stories by humorist Jean Shepherd. They were first published in Playboy in the mid 1960s. These stories were later put together to make the very funny film of the same title in 1983. The book in its current form was published...more...]]> 3 0 false true Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 05:33:44 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 05:37:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 09:07:48 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 09:11:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 14:18:19 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 20:16:05 -0800 2009
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