In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
by Jean Shepherd
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Author: Jean ShepherdEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1991-05-28
ISBN: 0385021747
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Main Street Books
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- ISBN13: 9780385021746
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Book Reviews of In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
Book Review: Enjoyed the stories
Summary: 4 Stars
First off it is important to remember that these stories were not originally intended to be a book, but were actually intended for radio and were published together in book form some time later. Secondly, while this book inspired A Christmas Story, it is not A Christmas Story so if you are looking for that you are going to be disappointed. The premise of the book is that Ralph has returned home for a visit and winds at a local bar owned by his childhood friend Flick and the two of them reminisce about the old days. The Ralph and Flick dialogue sections were basically added to bridge between the stories and one could just skip those altogether. For my part I enjoyed the stories. I found them entertaining and an easy read. I would recommend this book to someone who is looking for some fairly light entertainment.
Summary of In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
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. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.
In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage "You can never go back." Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth.
A comic genius who bridged the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.
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