Title: Lake Wobegon summer 1956
First published: 2001
Description: "The Doo Dads are singing "My Girl" on the radio and on the porch of the big green house on Green Street, fourteen-year-old Gary is studying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is looking down from the window of heaven and wondering how a Sanctified Brethren boy could turn out so badly.".

"He has never so much as kissed a girl, except his rebellious cousin Kate, a sophisticate of seventeen who knows about The New Yorker and also how to swear and exhale smoke through her nose. He feels lost when she falls for a heroic southpaw pitcher named Roger Guppy. But this is the summer when things change. Gary comes into possession of an Underwood typewriter. He fights back against his bullying born-again sister and his tyrannical teacher.

And he starts to become a writer, producing fantastic tales about talking dogs, fatal blood diseases, tornadoes, and the lady with the torch."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Summer, Nineteen fifties, Fiction, Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place), Humorous stories, Minnesota in fiction, Minnesota. in fiction, Large type books, Lake wobegon (minn. : imaginary place), fiction, Minnesota, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Personality, Self, Neuropsychology, Ego, Persoonlijkheid, Zelf, Hersenen, Synapsen, Gehirn, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Persönlichkeitsfaktor, Synapse, Fiction, humorous
Places: Minnesota