Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Garrison Keillor
• Title: Wobegon Boy (Lake Wobegon Series)
• Publisher: ‎ Viking; First Edition (November 1, 1997)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 305 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0670878073
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0670878079
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.3 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.46 x 1.2 x 9.34 inches
• Book Condition: New / Like New – Excellent
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

John Tollefson, a fortysomething Norwegian bachelor public-radio manager, falls for Columbia University historian Alida Freeman, while struggling to cope with his curmugeonly father, a controlling boss, a gloomy neurotic staff, bankruptcy, and other trials and tribulations. 

About the Author:

Garrison Keillor wrote Boom Town during the pandemic lockdown in New York, reading drafts of it to his wife, Jenny, sitting across the room. He did parts of the book in monologues for audiences in Boston, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Virginia, along with the story of how, in the eighth grade, his shop teacher Orville Buehler, worried about the boy's carelessness with the power saw, sent him up to LaVona Person's speech class, thus changing his life.

Keillor says, "For many people, the key to success is discipline and education, but for me, it was ineptitude with power tools."

His twice-weekly columns appear on Substack (garrisonkeillor.substack.com).