| Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 Contributor(s): Keillor, Garrison (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142000930 ISBN-13: 9780142000939 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: The summer of 1956 in Lake Wobegon is full of the innocent delights of baseball and the agonizing rites of passage for 14-year-old Gary, an unforgettable young protagonist created by an American master. With his brilliant humor and trademark style, Keillor gives readers a glimpse of the making of a writer who comes of age in classic Wobegon style. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1100 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.1" W x 7.74" (0.47 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |