Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor
337 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0571146333
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Language: English
Publish: 473414400000
Adult FictionAmericanComedyContemporaryFictionHumorLiteratureNovelsShort StoriesThe United States Of America
This book is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, in Minnesota – a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and style of a history of the town and later ones chronicle the lives, activities and concerns of the town’s inhabitants.
“This is the funniest, most original book I’ve read in a long time … it is also something new in comic writing, a gem, a masterpiece, a modern classic, better than all that, it is something that will make you laugh out loud.” – Stanley Reynolds, Punch