Audio Book Description:
LAKE WOBEGON, 1956. The Doo Dads are singing "My Girl" on the radio and on the porch of the big green house on Green Street, fourteen-year-old Gary isstudying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is lookingdown from the window of heaven and wondering how a Sactified Brethren boy could turn out sobadly. He has never so much askissed a girl, except his rebellious cousin kate, a sophisticate of seventeen who knowsabout the NEW YORKER and also how to swear and exhale smoke through her nose He feels lost when she falls for a heroic southpaw pitcher named RogerGuppy. But this is the summer when things change. Gary comes into possession of an Underwood typewrighter.He fights back against his bullyingborn-again sister and his tyrannical teacher. And he starts to become a wrighter, producing fantastic tales about taslking dogs, fatal bloosdiseases, tornadoes, and the lady with the torch.
