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product_id: 9788215
title: "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters"
brand: "jean shepherd"
price: "€ 21.82"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 12
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# Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters

**Brand:** jean shepherd
**Price:** € 21.82
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- **What is this?** Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters by jean shepherd
- **How much does it cost?** € 21.82 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Been there, done that (we all have)
  

*by G***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024*

Hilarious, sometimes painfully so. A should read for anyone over 18. Some of the best and worse times growing up.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wonderful.
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2017*

Back in the late 1960s when the title story, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories, came out in Playboy I read it there - yes I did actually read things in Playboy! But I'd never read the other Shepherd stories collected in this book. I have now and they're all wonderful. Shepherd was a brilliant writer - able to paint a word picture like few writers I know. His stories tell of growing up in a working class town in the mid-west around the late 1930s. Shepherd's real talent here is making experiences that, objectively, sound really awful come across as fun and funny. He makes a grueling car trip at the start of the annual family vacation sound like a delightful, funny, adventure when, in reality, it would have been torture for anyone experiencing it at the time. So the stories are mostly humorous - usually very much so. But he can be poignant as well. The most affecting story is The Return of the Smiling Wimpy Doll in which he writes as an adult who has just received a big box of his old toys from his mom who was cleaning out the basement of the hold home. As he goes through these, one by one, each brings back a particular story or event from his childhood. I laughed out loud several times. But I teared up several times too.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Male nostalgia best viewed from the finish line (plus one story that all younger men need to know)
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2018*

I didn't discover Jean Shepherd's nostalgic writing until my northern Indiana high school 50th reunion was just around the corner; for me his nostalgia is painfully funny. The stories discuss middle- and high-school male students learning about life, charting their paths by following other's examples and by trying to meet other's expectations; the results usually are humorously embarrassing. Perhaps Jean Shepherd's nostalgia is best viewed from the finish line (and hopefully the winner's circle): you remember and you laugh about the stupid stuff you formerly did, and as a mature adult you are happy that you no longer slavishly cater to other's expectations. Yet this story collection also includes one short story (The Star-Crossed Romance Of Josephine Cosnowski) that all younger men need to know.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-24*