Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story - Hardcover

Lamb, Wally

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006194100X ISBN 13: 9780061941009

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2009

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Book by Lamb Wally

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The author of I Know This Much Is True shares a holiday novella that begins by focusing on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello as Christmas approaches in 1964, then propels readers from the past to the present so that they might measure what America has gained and what it has lost. 400,000 first printing.

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With his latest story, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′, Wally Lamb takes a turn toward the lighthearted and laugh-provoking. In a vein similar to Jean Shepherd′s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris′s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb′s holiday tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello--a distant cousin of the iconic Annette! Both poignant and hilarious, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′ transports us back to October, November, and December of 1964, when LBJ and Lady Bird were in the White House, Meet the Beatles was on everyone′s turntables, and Christmas meant mistletoe, mangers, and midnight mass. Then it propels us from the past to the present so that we might measure what we′ve gained and what we′ve lost.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 006194100X
• ISBN 13: 9780061941009
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 275