Lake Wobegon Summer 1956

Author: Garrison Keillor

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  • : $23.95 AUD
  • : 9780571210244
  • : Faber
  • : faber
  • : September 2002
  • : 22.95
  • : April 2005
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  • : Garrison Keillor
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Barcode 9780571210244
9780571210244

Description

A hilarious coming-of-age novel, this text serves 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, Garrison Keillor tells a real story that both satirizes and celebrates the traumas and the passions of adolescence. Keillor's latest novel takes us back to a newly minted America. With their postwar optimism and Cold War suspicions of outsiders, the 1950's are evoked in unforgettable Wobegon fashion.