~ Undersize Hardcover (13.5 x 20cm)
Young Ralphie Parker is a nine-year-old boy living in Northwest Indiana in the late 1930s, and all he wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle, but his request has been reject by his mother, his teacher, and the disgruntled Santa at Higbee's store, all of whom insist that Ralphie will shoot his eye out . . .
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, A Christmas Story is the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family's typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has coalesced in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of fiction, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.