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 naked women, aware that Grandpais looking down from the window of heaven and wondering how a Sanctified Brethren boy could turn out so badly.he has never so much as kissed a girl, except his rebellious cousin Kate, a sophisticate ofseventeen who knows about the New Yorker and also how toswear and exhale smoke through her nose He feels lost when she falls for a heroic southpawpitcher named Roger Guppy. But this is the summer whenthings change. gary comes into possession of an Underwood typewrighter.He fights back against his bullying born-again sister and his tyrannicalteacher. And he starts to become a wrighter, producing fantastic tales about talking dogs, fatal blood diseases, tornadoes, and the lady withthe torch.
