Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel

Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel

by Garrison Keillor (Author)

Synopsis

In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who wishes for her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake. Meanwhile, a wedding between a veterinary aromatherapist and her boyfriend Brent is set to take place aboard a pontoon boat. A delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark has come to town, and there's Raoul of the cigars and tinted shades, come to visit his elderly lover. All is in readiness for the wedding - the French champagne, the flying Elvis, the giant duck decoys - and then something quite unexpected happens.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Aug 2008

ISBN 10: 0571217257
ISBN 13: 9780571217250
Book Overview: Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel by Garrison Keillor: welcome to another classic humorous tale of small time life and colourful characters.
Prizes: Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2008.

Author Bio
Garrison Keillor lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of A Prairie Home Companion, his radio show, on the air since 1974 (with a long sabbatical in the middle). The Companion does thirty-two live shows a year and tours every year to New York, Washington, L.A., Chicago, and Tanglewood in the Berkshires. He is the author of many novels, including the Lake Wobegon novels, and wrote and appeared in the movie A Prairie Home Companion, directed by Robert Altman. His weekly column, The Old Scout, is syndicated to newspapers across the US and appears on Salon.com.