Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
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Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
Meet fourteen-year-old Gary. A self-described tree-toad, a sly and endearing geek, Gary has many unwieldy passions, chief among them his cousin Kate, his Underwood typewriter and the soft-porn masterpiece, High School Orgies. The folks of Lake Wobegon don't have much patience for a kid's ungodly obsessions, and so Gary manages to filter the hormonal earthquake that is puberty and his hopeless devotion to glamorous, rebellious Kate through his fantastic yarns. With every marvellous story he moves a few steps closer to becoming a writer. And when Kate gets herself into trouble with the local baseball star, Gary also experiences the first pangs of a broken heart.With his trademark gift for treading a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment(Cleveland Plain Dealer), Garrison Keillor brilliantly captures a newly minted post-war America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about a writer coming of age in the rural Midwest.
Garrison Keillor is the host of Public Radio International's A Prairie Home Companion and the author of many novels. He coauthored The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, with his wife Jenny Lind Nilsson, and wrote two picture books for younger readers. His adult titles include Lake Wobegon Days, Leaving Home, and The Book of Guys. He lives in Minnesota with his family.
Robin Preiss Glasser is a former ballerina who has become one of the most sought-after illustrators in the children's book business. She has illustrated more than fifteen children's stories, including Fancy Nancy, by Jane O'Connor; America: A Patriotic Primer, and A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, both by Lynne Cheney; and You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, by Jacqueline Weitzman, which was an ALA Notable Book and a American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. She lives with her family in California.
Robin Preiss Glasser is a former ballerina who has become one of the most sought-after illustrators in the children's book business. She has illustrated more than fifteen children's stories, including Fancy Nancy, by Jane O'Connor; America: A Patriotic Primer, and A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, both by Lynne Cheney; and You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, by Jacqueline Weitzman, which was an ALA Notable Book and a American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. She lives with her family in California.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780670030033 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670030031 |
| Title | Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 |
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
| Year published | 2001-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 291 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |