Lake Wobegon summer 1956

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"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 is studying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is 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 of seventeen who knows about 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 Roger Guppy. But this is the summer when things change. Gary comes into possession of an Underwood typewriter. He fights back against his bullying born-again sister and his tyrannical teacher. And he starts to become a writer, producing fantastic tales about talking dogs, fatal blood diseases, tornadoes, and the lady with the torch."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Summer,  Nineteen fifties,  Fiction,  Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place),  Humorous stories,  Minnesota in fiction,  Minnesota. in fiction,  Large type books,  Lake wobegon (minn. : imaginary place), fiction,  Minnesota, fiction,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Personality,  Self,  Neuropsychology,  Ego,  Persoonlijkheid,  Zelf,  Hersenen,  Synapsen,  Gehirn,  Persönlichkeitsentwicklung,  Persönlichkeitsfaktor,  Synapse,  Fiction, humorous

Places: Minnesota