Wobegon Boy
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0140274782 / Publisher: Penguin Books, November 1998
After landing his dream job as a manager of a radio station in an affluent community, Lake Wobegon native John Tollefson believes he has found his place in the world, but during a visit home to his small town, he begins to discover what really matters to him. Reprint.
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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.
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