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In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash Audiobook, by Jean Shepherd Play Audiobook Sample

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash Audiobook

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Read By: Sean Patrick Hopkins Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 11.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2025 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666692310

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A collection of humorous and nostalgic Americana stories—the beloved, bestselling classics that inspired the movie A Christmas Story

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.

This audiobook is expertly read by Sean Patrick Hopkins, with audio engineering by Blake Rook. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Copyright (C) 1966 by Jean Shepherd (P) (2024) Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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About Jean Shepherd

Jean Shepherd (1921–1999) was an American writer, actor, and radio and television personality. He is best known for the film A Christmas Story, which he narrated and co-scripted based on his own semi-autobiographical stories.