Hank Stuever

Tinsel

A Search for America's Christmas Present

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Produktbeschreibung

In Tinsel, Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas?a suburb at once all-American and completely itself?to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas. Stuever's tale begins on the blissful easy-credit dawn of Black Friday, as he jostles for bargains among the crowds at the big-box stores. From there he follows Frisco's true believers as they navigate through three years of holiday drama. Tammie Parnell is the proprietor of ?Two Elves with a Twist,? a company that decks the halls of other people's McMansions. Jeff and Bridgette Trykoski spend eleven months preparing the visible-from-space, awe-inspiring light display they stage on their lawn each December. And single mother Caroll Cavazos, a devout churchgoer, hopes that the life-affirming moments of the season can transcend her everyday struggles. Tinsel is a humane, revealing, and very funny portrait of one community's quest to discover a more perfect holiday amidst the frenzied, mega-churchy, shoparific world of Christmas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MARINER BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 135mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780547394565
• ISBN-10: 054739456X
• Artikelnr.: 29925543

Autorenporträt

HANK STUEVER is an award-winning pop-culture writer for the Washington Post 's style section. He is the author of Off Ramp, an essay collection, and has appeared on Today, The View, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and National Public Radio.