Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

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Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor published in 1985 a fiction story set in Minnesota with eccentric characters and silly situations.

The year is 1986. The town of Lake Wobegon in Minnesota. It’s a small town where life has stood still since the 1960’s or before. The town holds no place in history. Although it sits near the Mississippi River, it is not the beginning. “In 1836 an Italian count waded up the creek, towing his canoe, and camped on the lake shore.” He thought he had made history by discovering the true headwaters of the Mississippi River. But he quickly decided he was wrong. “What made so many others look at us and think, It doesn’t start here!?”

Lake Wobegon is a quiet town. It is the kind of town where you can stand in the middle of Main Street and not be in anyone’s way. But the town has its share of eccentrics. There is Myrtle Krebsbach. At seventy-two she looks more like a woman of thirty-four who has had a hard life. Every Friday night she has two pink daiquiris and hums “Tiptoe through the Tulips” between each daiquiri. Her husband Florian is a bit of a hypochondriac. He visits the doctor often and drives a 1966 Chevrolet that is spotless. He bought it with forty-two thousand miles and it still has forty-two thousand miles. He cleans the motor with gasoline before he goes inside the doctor’s office.

The hardback book does not have a dust jacket  and measures 6-1/4″ x 9-1/4″ x 1″ with 337 pages.