A Christmas Story

by Jean Shepherd

Some of the stories from Shepherd’s books, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, were used to create the movie A Christmas Story. The relevant stories are collected in this volume.

Shepherd’s style is much like the move — funny, but not quite so absurd as to be unbelievable. This was a fun, quick read, and makes me want to check out the other collections for the other shorts written by Shepherd.