Wobegon Boy

Keillor's follow up to LAKE WOBEGON DAYS has his protagonist, John Tollefson, now a 40-something radio station manager living in upstate New York, return to Minnesota for a life-changing visit.

The Arizona Daily Star

No one has ever put Garrison Keillor material on tape except the author. No one could. A prolific, gifted humorist, Keillor provides another series of anecdotes and shaggy Norwegian stories about small-town Minnesota where the worst thing you can do is whine, and the best is "make yourself useful." Like all good humor, it comes ruefully close to being true. Except for that crack about dogs not biting Norwegians because "they're too salty and have too many bones." [brought to you by HighBridge Audio]. ( November 28, 1997 )

First with his performances on Minnesota Public Radio's Prairie Home Companion and later in his books, Garrison Keillor has become a symbol of the small-town Midwest -- its absurdities, its stoutness, and its warmth. His popular, funny stories set in Lake Wobegon manage to evoke nostalgia for a town that never existed.