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Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
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Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor , First edition, Hardback in near mint dust jacket. Published by Viking Press, 2001.
Book and dust jacket in excellent condition, clean no writing, dust jacket near mint,
291 pages. A hilarious coming-of-age novel, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956serves up the world according to 14-year-old Gary, an endearing geek, a self-described 'tree-toad', and a writer in the making whose best friend is his Underwood typewriter. Always with humour, and often with great sympathy, charm and honesty, the author tells us a story that both satirises and celebrates the traumas and the passions of adolescence. Keillor takes us back to a newly-minted America. With its post-war optimism and Cold War suspicions of outsiders, the 1950s are evoked in unforgettable Wobegon fashion
Book and dust jacket in excellent condition, clean no writing, dust jacket near mint,
291 pages. A hilarious coming-of-age novel, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956serves up the world according to 14-year-old Gary, an endearing geek, a self-described 'tree-toad', and a writer in the making whose best friend is his Underwood typewriter. Always with humour, and often with great sympathy, charm and honesty, the author tells us a story that both satirises and celebrates the traumas and the passions of adolescence. Keillor takes us back to a newly-minted America. With its post-war optimism and Cold War suspicions of outsiders, the 1950s are evoked in unforgettable Wobegon fashion
