num_pages: 305
description: 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.
language: English
title: Wobegon Boy
titlecomplete: Wobegon Boy
characters: John Tolefson
genres: Literature, Novels, American Novels, Fiction, Short Stories, Adult Fiction, Humor, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1618
places: New York (State), Minnesota, Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
series: Lake Wobegon
publisher: Penguin Books