Lake Wobegon: The Lake Wobegon Virus

Lake Wobegon: The Lake Wobegon Virus
Garrison Keillor
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 240pg
1 Nov 2020 US
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9781951627676
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Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America' s most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candorA mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurised cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2. 2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears - a town where, as we know, ' all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. '

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Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was "a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope"--no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he' s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781951627676
Published: 1 Nov 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Arcade Publishing
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 240

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