Wobegon Boy: A Novel (Softcover) by Garrison Keillor spoken word

Wobegon Boy: A Novel (Softcover) by Garrison Keillor spoken wordA promising young man, John Tollefson, last seen leaving home in Lake Wobegon Days, lands in a lovely town in upstate New York, the manager of a public radio station at a college for the academically challenged children of financially gifted parents. He buys a fine house, finds a wonderful girlfriend named Alida, launches a restaurant, puts on good parties, is presented with radio's coveted Wally Award, and then it dawn on him that his life is empty,

Bob Wilson Month

in Keillor's words

A smile gets you more than a frown

Never broadcast and therefore available for the first time on this collection

A promising young man

the Sidetrack Tap

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Don't Let Me Come Home a Stranger

and three-martini lunches with the great editor William Shawn

and blind baseball announcer Buck Steller

Keillor is at his best…

a stark contrast to the Lutheran farm town of the radio monologues