A Christmas story
By: Jean Shepherd.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction.; Indiana -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Ralphie, a nine-year-old boy in 1940s Indiana, dreams of receiving a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas but encounters resistance at every turn when he makes his wish known.
Notes: The first 4 stories in this collection previously published in In God we trust, all others pay cash; the 5th story previously published in Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories, and other disasters.
Table of contents: title: Duel in the snow, or, Red Ryder nails the Cleveland Street Kid; title: The Counterfeit Secret Circle member gets the message, or, The asp strikes again; title: My old man and the lascivious special award that heralded the birth of pop art; title: Grover Dill and the Tasmanian devil; title: The grandstand passion play of Delbert and the Bumpus hounds.