Jean Shepherd disproves the adage you can never go back in this wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown. 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. Jean Shepherd is a multitalented author and actor. His films include OLLIE HOPNOODLE`S HAVEN OF BLISS; THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN HEARTH; THE GREAT AMERICAN FOURTH OF JULY, and other disasters; the star crossed romance of Josephine Cosnowski; and the popular MGM film A CHRISTMAS STORY. Other books include A FISTFUL OF FIG NEWTONS, Wanda Hickey`s NIGHT OF GOLDEN MEMORIES, and other disasters, and THE FERRARI IN THE BEDROOM. Shepherd has been called America`s leading satirist of the underground.