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TWO - Garrison Keillor - LAKE WOBEGON hardcover books

WOBEGON BOY & LEAVING HOME (collection of Lake Wobegon)

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Author: Garrison KeillorFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USAISBN-10: 0670878073
ISBN-13: 9780670878079Subject: Humor
Publication Year: 1997Topic: --
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A young man from Lake Wobegon escapes to upstate New York, becomes manager of a college radio station, and dodges marriage with various eligible maidens. Garrison Keillor uses the plot as a vehicle for his comic takes on various subjects.

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Length:305 pages
Height:9.8 in.
Width:6.8 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:22.4 oz.

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In his trademark warm and satiric style, Garrison Keillor, host of the ever-popular "A Prairie Home Companion" and author of such bestselling books as "The Book of Guys" and "Lake Wobegon Days", returns to enchant readers with his first new Lake Wobegon novel in ten years--a combination of Wobegon saga and passionate romance for the '90s.
John Tollefson, the son of Byron and Mary of Lake Wobegon, leaves Minnesota for upstate New York, to manage a public radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents. Free from the Dark Lutherans of his hometown, he makes a pleasant bachelor life for himself in New York. He buys a new house and paints it a deep gold. He has a bright idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh produce. He falls in love with a historian named Alida Freeman. He is presented with public radio's coveted Wally Award. In the midst of plenty, it occurs to John that his life lacks nobility and grace. A consumer of fine food and wine and giver of good parties, he yet has no coherent life story. Compared to his great-grandfather John Tollefson, who finagled his way over from Norway, he feels rootless, restless, joined in no struggle, with nothing at stake. The only true magnificence in his life is Alida, who eludes his courtship and gives him an impassioned speech about the pleasures of living alone. Folded into the romance of John and Alida is the checkered saga of his ancestors - dour butcher, a playboy publisher, a medicine-show politician, Siamese-twin ballplayers, a Texas Pentacostalist, and a bank embezzler - and Lake Wobegon itself, with its bachelor farmers, its stout-hearted burghers and housewives, its simple code: Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and Avoid self-pity. A useful code, as John discovers in his pursuit of magnificance, especially as the going gets tougher.

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"...[T]here's plenty to recommend this novel, for fans and Keillorphobes alike. Keillor, as always, writes with a finely tuned ear for comic phrasing and dialogue."
New York Times Book Review - Alex Heard (10/26/1997)

"He often undercuts the same people he describes with loving precision. We are charmed by his Wobegonians, but we also are invited to snicker at them and their hayseed ways....[But] I read it nonstop, soaking up the Lake Wobegon stories..."
Washington Post Book World - Michael Kernan (11/30/1997)

"Drollery raised to the level of genuine comic art."
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TWO - GARRISON KEILLOR  HARDCOVER BOOKS ABOUT LAKE WOBEGON.

Written by Garrison Keillor.
Published by Viking, © 1987 & 1997.
2 Hardcover books - in Very good  condition, with dustjackets.  Dustjacket for Wobegon Boy has a 2 " split in the edge at lower corner.


LEAVING HOME
In this, the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Garrison Keillor tells us more about some of the people he introduced in print in Lake Wobegon Days, and about some others, many of whom are leaving home. 


WOBEGON BOY

Keillor's follow up to LAKE WOBEGON DAYS has his protagonist, John Tollefson, now a 40-something radio station manager living in upstate New York, return to Minnesota for a life-changing visit.  John, the son of Byron and Mary of Lake Wobegon, left the American midwest for upstate New York to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents.



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