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Wobegon Boy

Wobegon Boy

Hardback (29 Jan 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

John Tollefson, a fortysomething Norwegian bachelor public-radio manager, falls for Columbia University historian Alida Freeman, while struggling to cope with his curmugeonly father, a controlling boss, a gloomy neurotic staff, bankruptcy, and other trials and tribulations.

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Viking

Viking

Viking publishes the widest possible range of literary fiction and non-fiction. Our fiction list includes John le Carr?, Nick Hornby, Will Self, Colm T?ib?n, Nicole Krauss, William Trevor, Catherine O' Flynn, Jonathan Coe, and Joshua Ferris. In non-fiction, the range covers current affairs, history, biography, memoir, narrative non-fiction, music and sport. Our authors include Antony Beevor, Andrew Rawnsley, Mark Bostridge, Sarah Bradford, Saul David, Catherine Bailey, Lynn Barber, Claire Tomalin and John Stubbs.

Book information

ISBN: 9780670878079
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Viking
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 305
Weight: 635g
Height: 247mm
Width: 171mm
Spine width: 31mm

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