A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic americana, reissued in a strikingly designed paperback edition. Before garrison keillor and spalding gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer w...A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic americana, reissued in a strikingly designed paperback edition. Before garrison keillor and spalding gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art.