Wobegon Boy
by Keillor, Garrison
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0571195571
- ISBN 13
- 9780571195572
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Quality Paperbacks Direct. Very Good+. 1998. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Book Club Edition . Some cover corner creases, light shelf wear, slight ink scribble to front cover, slightly cocked spine and slightly thumbed. ; First printing of book club edition QPD CN 1352. Nice tight good reading copy, no names inside. Cover photo by Stuart D. Klipper. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 320 pages; John Tollefson leaves Lake Wobegon in the American midwest for upstate New York to manage a public-radio station. There he falls for Columbia University historian Alida Freeman, but she keeps eluding his attempts at courtship... .
Synopsis
John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And he falls in love with an historian named Alida Freeman, hard at work on a book about a nineteenth-century Norwegian naturopath, an acquaintance of Lincoln, Thoreau, Whitman, and Susan B. Anthony. Caught up in his own ambitions, John visits home in Minnesota to sit in the Sidetrack Tap and the Chatterbox Cafe and listen to the talk he has heard all his life, and in that familiar landscape he discovers what is truly important to him. It all comes down to the Lake Wobegon code: Cheer Up, Make Yourself Useful, Mind Your Manners, and Avoid Self-Pity.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33738
- Title
- Wobegon Boy
- Author
- Keillor, Garrison
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0571195571
- ISBN 13
- 9780571195572
- Publisher
- Quality Paperbacks Direct
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Book Club Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour And Cartoons;
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