Lake Wobegon Summer 1956: A NOVEL
by Garrison Keillor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670030031
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030033
- Seller
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Olive Hill, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
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
Synopsis
The Doo Dads are singing "My Girl" on the radio and fourteen-year-old Gary is studying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is looking down from heaven wondering how the boy turned out so badly. He has never so much as kissed a girl, except his rebellious cousin Kate, a sophisticate of seventeen who knows about The New Yorker and also how to swear and exhale smoke rings. But this is a summer of change for Gary: he fights back against his bullying born-again sister and his tyrannical teacher, and most significantly, he receives an Underwood typewriter-a typewriter that will help Gary believe he can become a writer. With his trademark gift for treading "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment" ( The Cleveland Plain Dealer ), Keillor's touching and funny novel brilliantly captures a newly minted America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about the universal aspects of adolescence-from first loves to fear and fascination with bodily functions.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Melissa E Anderson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- K9076
- Title
- Lake Wobegon Summer 1956: A NOVEL
- Author
- Garrison Keillor
- Format/Binding
- Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670030031
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030033
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001-08-27
- Keywords
- Keilor, Lake Wobegon, 1956, first editions
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Classics; FICTION / Humorous; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology;
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