A fistful of fig newtons
By: by Jean Shepherd.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Description: From the wild and wacky world of a favorite funnyman, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Turnpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.
Table of contents: title: A fistful of fig newtons, or The shootout in room 303; title: The light at the end of the tunnel; title: The mole people battle the forces of darkness; title: Marcel Proust meets the New Jersey tailgater, and survives; title: The marathon run of Lonesome Ernie, the Arkansas Traveler; title: Sociology 101 (Hip Division); title: Lemons on the grass, alas; title: The lost civilization of Deli; title: The whole fun catalog of 1929; title: Lost at C; title: Ellsworth Leggett and the great ice cream war; title: The Barbi doll celebrates New Year's.