Bibliograph

In God we trust, all others pay cash, Jean Shepherd

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In God we trust, all others pay cash, Jean Shepherd

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

In God we trust

Oclc number

2460794

Responsibility statement

Jean Shepherd

Sub title

all others pay cash

Summary

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

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