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    Wobegon Boy
    Wobegon Boy
    Wobegon Boy
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Wobegon Boy

    Written by Garrison Keillor

    Narrated by Garrison Keillor

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Keillor's follow up to Lake Wobegon Days has his protagonist, John Tollefson, now a forty-something radio station manager living in upstate New York, return to Minnesota for a life-changing visit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 25, 2006
    ISBN9781598873313
    Wobegon Boy
    Author

    Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.

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    • 2/5
      Curious about Garrison Keillor, since I heard some of his stories years ago on the radio.

      A relaxed book with entertaining characters and a simple development of the main character.

      Charming slices of life.

    • 3/5
      If I understand the premise of the story, than it is supposed to describe how the values of a Mid Western Lutheran Boy hold up in a different setting. The error in this premise is that the main character never had the values of a mid western Lutheran boy. His values are the same as all those around him, and he is simply a reflections of the culture around him with a Minnesotan accent. He does have memories of his parents who are the ones who have the Lutheran values. John, the title character is somewhat pompous and condescending. He dubs those who do hold to "Lutheran " values ad "Dark Lutherans" To the authors credit, there are some very humorous moments in the story. That and the sections that deal with John going back for a funeral and learning more about his parents and grand parents are entertaining and keeps this story form falling into disappointing