The Ferrari in the Bedroom

By: Jean Shepherd

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Paperback | 16 December 1986 | Edition Number 1

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A Christmas Story's successful publication (over 100,000 in print) proves that readers love Jean Shepherd's observations of Americans' hang-ups and delusions. Now, fans old and new can rediscover Shepherd's warm wit and observation in this reissued classic that explores the always-amusing topic of 1970s fads.

" Jean Shepherd is that very rare breed, a homespun humorist cut from the same Midwestern cloth as Mark Twain and George Ade."-Saturday Review

Jean Shepherd was one of America's favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillor-like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of nostalgic Americans.

The Ferrari in the Bedroom is Shepherd's wry, affectionate look at the hang-ups and delusions of Americans in the 1970s. From his sardonic assessment of fads such as the nostalgia craze ("Thinking that the old days were good is a terrible sickness. Everything was just as bad then as it is now.") to a modest proposal for the foundation of S.P.L.A.T. (The Society for the Prevention of the Leaving of Animal Turds), Jean Shepherd provides a generous measure of his special brand of wise and warm humor as an antidote for some of America's more ridiculous obsessions.

Industry Reviews

"True genius."
--Library Journal

"Shepherd is that very rare breed, a homespun humorist cut from the same Midwestern cloth as Mark Twain and George Ade."
--Saturday Review

"[Shepherd's] descriptions of the mores of today as seen through the perspective of a robust male provide many a chuckle . . . and the wish that life were simpler and people knew what and who they are."
--Best Sellers

"[Shepherd's] appeal rests securely on the metaphor that adult life is a continuation of a boys' pickup sandlot game."
--Commentary

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