New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0670878073 . A handsome first edition/first printing in just about Fine condition, minor bumping to top edges in Fine dust-jacket; Garrison Keillor continues his masterful portrait of the sort of small-town world that many Americans believe to have grown up in, or would have liked to. . . . Cheer Up, Make Yourself Useful, Mind Your Manners, and Avoid Self-Pity; 8vo; [x], 305, [5] pages .

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John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And he falls in love with an historian named Alida Freeman, hard at work on a book about a nineteenth-century Norwegian naturopath, an acquaintance of Lincoln, Thoreau, Whitman, and Susan B. Anthony. Caught up in his own ambitions, John visits home in Minnesota to sit in the Sidetrack Tap and the Chatterbox Cafe and listen to the talk he has heard all his life, and in that familiar landscape he discovers what is truly important to him. It all comes down to the Lake Wobegon code: Cheer Up, Make Yourself Useful, Mind Your Manners, and Avoid Self-Pity.

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 29892
Title: Wobegon Boy - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Keillor, Garrison
Format/Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670878073
ISBN 13: 9780670878079
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang
Bookseller catalogs: Author Collections / Lehane, Dennis;

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