Skipping Christmas

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Skipping Christmas is a comedic holiday novel by John Grisham about a couple who decide to forgo their usual Christmas celebrations, leading to chaotic and humorous consequences.

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instanceOf comedy novel
holiday novel
novel
adaptationType feature film
adaptedAs Christmas with the Kranks
author John Grisham
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
fictionalHoliday Christmas
filmAdaptationDirector Joe Roth
filmAdaptationReleaseYear 2004
filmAdaptationScreenwriter Chris Columbus
filmAdaptationStars Dan Aykroyd
Jamie Lee Curtis
Tim Allen
genre comedy
holiday fiction
humor
hasFormat audiobook
ebook
hardcover
paperback
hasISBN 9780385505834
language English
literaryPeriod 21st-century American literature
mainCharacters Luther Krank
Nora Krank
mediaType print
narrativePerspective third-person
narrativeTone lighthearted
satirical
notableFor being adapted into the film Christmas with the Kranks
satirizing the commercialization of Christmas
originalPublisher Doubleday
plotSummary A couple decides to skip Christmas and go on a cruise instead, causing conflict with their community and unexpected complications.
protagonist Luther Krank
Nora Krank
publicationYear 2001
publisherImprint Doubleday
surface form: Doubleday Fiction
settingLocation fictional American suburb
targetAudience adult readers
theme Christmas traditions
community
consumerism
family
timeSetting Christmas season
workOf John Grisham

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John Grisham notableWork Skipping Christmas
John Grisham workAdaptedIntoFilm Skipping Christmas