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Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story
Contributor(s): Lamb, Wally (Author)
ISBN: 0061941018     ISBN-13: 9780061941016
Publisher: Harper Perennial
OUR PRICE:   $15.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Humorous - General
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.05" W x 7.09" (0.45 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Holiday - Christmas
 
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Publisher Description:
Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She's Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin' and Hopin'--an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story and David Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries, Lamb's Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello--a distant cousin of the iconic Annette

Contributor Bio(s): Lamb, Wally: -

Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and
selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn't Keep It to Myself and I'll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for seventeen years.