Wobegon Boy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Garrison Keillor
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Midwest, Small-town life, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Radio or radio broadcasting, Middle age, Religious life
- Locales: New York, Lake Wobegon, MN
John Tollefson, Johnny of Lake Wobegon Days, is the first-person narrator of Wobegon Boy. John first leaves Lake Wobegon to attend the university in Minneapolis. There he carries on a ten-year affair with a young woman named Korlyss, “an extremely nice person” but “of a mournful disposition.” John finally goes east, not triumphantly as in his boyhood dreams but in a desperate flight from Korlyss, who has begun to insist upon marriage. He finds a job as manager of WSJO, a radio station on the campus of St. James College in Red Cliff, New York, on Cayuga Lake.
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