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Lake Wobegon Summer 1956by Garrison Keillor
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Book DescriptionPenguin (Non-Classics), 2002-08-27. Paperback. Very Good. Tight Binding, No Spine Creases, No Writing, No Cover or Edge Wear. Book summaryYoung Gary, who has literary ambitions, comes of age in the ever-popular Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor's sort-of-sequel to WOBEGON BOY.Media Reviews"[F]or all the teenage angst that gets spilled in this novel, Gary is a lot closer to Richie Cunningham from HAPPY DAYS than Holden Caulfield, because the level of invention so rarely rises much above the level of the average sitcom....[H]ow can the man who wrote this fitfully entertaining book possibly be the same guy who every week presides over the funniest show on public radio....?" -- Malcolm Jones, New York Times Book Review "Unfortunately, the premise that we are getting Gary's existential take is undermined by intermittent vignettes of Gary's indignant grandpa kvetching to a Jesus so laid back he could be stoned. While these commentaries are amusing..., they poke holes in the fictional scrim of the story. it is as if Keillor doesn't trust his narrator--or his reader--to get the point....Gary's clunky, pleasantly scatological Bildungsroman doesn't need authorial divine intervention." -- Patrice Clark Koelsch, Ruminator Review Publisher NotesDuring the summer of 1956, fourteen-year-old geek Gary struggles with the hormonal pains and obsessions of puberty as he experiences a passionate devotion to his rebellious cousin Kate and pursues his dream of becoming a writer, but when Kate gets into trouble with the local basketball star, Gary is forced to deal with the first pangs of a broken heart. Reprint. Other Recommended Books
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