by Garrison Keillor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571240166
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«Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon» is the humorous novel by Garrison Keillor, published by Faber and Faber in paperback (248 pages, in English).
A Lutheran woman from Lake Wobegon asks that her ashes be kept in a bowling ball and thrown into the lake. A wedding between an aromatherapist veterinarian and her boyfriend is being prepared on a pontoon, while a touring group of Danish Lutheran pastors and Raoul, a visitor with tinted glasses, appear on the scene. Everything is ready, until the unexpected happens.
The novel is part of the Lake Wobegon series, of which it is the seventh installment. In 2008 it won the Audie Award for narration by the author and was nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
For fans of the Lake Wobegon series and lovers of satire.
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.
