Wobegon Boy - Softcover

Keillor, Garrison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571195636 ISBN 13: 9780571195633

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1999

Synopsis

Last seen leaving home in Lake Wobegon Days, John Tollefson is now a forty-something bachelor running a public-radio station at a 'mouldering Episcopalian College' in upstate New York. John's tribulations - his gloomy, neurotic staff, his controlling boss, a disastrous speech at a public-radio conference, the bankruptcy of a sweetcorn restaurant in which he is partners with his lawyer, his bumpy relationship with his querulous father - are set alongside his passionate romance with the lawyer's sister Alida Freeman, a Columbia University historian who is writing a book about Abraham Lincoln's holistic healer.

First a career crisis, then a family crisis take John back to Lake Wobegon, where the Tollefson family and assorted Lake Wobegon residents past and present - Mr Berge, Dorothy, Florian, Myrtle and Wally - sit in the Sidetrack Tap and the Chatterbox Cafe telling their stories. Wobegon Boy is a wonderful example of Garrison Keillor's funny and tender writing about small-town American life in the late 20th Century.

About this title

Product Description:

Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor

About the Author:

Garrison Keillor lives in St Paul, Minnesota, home of A Prairie Home Companion, his radio show that has been on the air since 1974. He wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home Companion and is the author of many books including the Lake Wobegon novels, which include Lake Wobegon Days, Pontoon and Pilgrims.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571195636
• ISBN 13: 9780571195633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336