Product details
ISBN
9780571210244
Published
2002-09-02
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
210 gr
Height
199 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
304
Author
Biographical note
Garrison Keillor lives in St Paul, Minnesota, home of A Prairie Home Companion, his radio show that has been on the air since 1974. He wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home Companion and is the author of many books including the Lake Wobegon novels, which include Lake Wobegon Days, Pontoon and Pilgrims.'It will have you tearing through the pages.' Observer
A hilarious coming-of-age novel, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 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, 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.
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A hilarious coming-of-age novel, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 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.
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Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor, a hilarious coming-of-age-novel, evokes the post-war optimism and Cold War suspicion of outsiders, all related in a relentlessly charming prose.
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Product details
ISBN
9780571210244
Published
2002-09-02
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
210 gr
Height
199 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
304
Author