by Garrison Keillor · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780142000939
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«Lake Wobegon Summer 1956» is the humorous coming-of-age novel by Garrison Keillor, published by Penguin Books in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In the summer of 1956, Gary, a fourteen-year-old boy, dreams of becoming a writer amid his cousin Kate, his Underwood typewriter, and his adolescent fantasies. Set in Lake Wobegon, it portrays rural postwar America with Keillor's humor, between teenage comedy and nostalgia for a disappearing world.
Fifth installment of the Lake Wobegon series, the fictional town in Minnesota; the 2002 edition is a reprint.
For those seeking humorous literary fiction with coming-of-age undertones and nostalgia for rural twentieth-century America.
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.
