Book description
Clint is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon - the treasurer
of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on
below-zero mornings. For six years he has run the Fourth of July
parade, turning what was once a line of pickup trucks and girls
pushing baby carriages that hold their cats into a dazzling spectacle
that has attracted the attention of CNN and prompted the governor to
put in an appearance as well. The town is dizzy with anticipation.
Until, that is, they hear of Clint's ambition to run for Congress.
They're embarrassed for him. They know him too well - his unfortunate
episodes involving vodka sours, his rocky marriage. And then there is
his friendship, or whatever it is, with the twenty-four-year-old girl
who dresses up as the Statue of Liberty for the parade. It's rumoured
that underneath those robes she is buck naked, and that her torch
contains a quart of booze. It's Lake Wobegon as it's always been -
good, loving people who drive each other crazy.
Garrison Keillor lives in St Paul, Minnesota, home of A Prairie
Home Companion, his radio show that has been on the air since 1974. He
wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home
Companion and is the author of many books including the Lake Wobegon
novels, the most recent of which was The New York Times bestseller, Pontoon.
