The town of Lake Woebegotton, MN is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living! Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets in order to survive an onslaught of the dead.
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The humor in this parody lies in the simple truth that even a zombie bear with a hatchet in its head won't faze a Minnesotan. After dead people and animals begin coming back to life, Lutheran pastor Daniel Inkfist and Catholic priest Father Edsel band together to form the Interfaith Anti-Zombification League. Power-mad mayoral candidate Eileen Munson tries to work the situation to her own advantage while dominatrix Julie Olafson dreams of creating a zombie-free green zone around Lake Woebegotten. Mr. Levitt, secretly a serial killer, easily dispatches the undead as well as the living, but then he decides to dig up the cemeteries (once the thaw hits) and release a zombie army. As in Garrison Keillor's writing, dry humor leads to moments of real feeling and pathos. A Minnesotan might say that it's pretty good if you like that kind of thing.
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About the Author Harrison Geillor was born in a small three-room farm house in central MN, sometime in the middle of the twentieth century. He attended one of Minnesota's prestigious institutions of higher learning, were he obtained a degree in English. Like English majors everywhere, he wanted on to work in a variety of jobs that had nothing to do with books or literature. At some point in his life he decided that the best way to appreciate Minnesota was to appreciate it from afar. He splits his time between Santa Cruz and San Francisco, only returning to Minnesota for smelt fishing, and the occasional family reunion.

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Harrison Geillor

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

United States, United States of America

1st ed, San Francisco, ©2010

1st ed, San Francisco, c2010

First Edition, US, 2010

First Printing, 2010

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The town of Lake Woebegotton, MN is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living! Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets in order to survive an onslaught of the dead. “This is the second best fictional novel about a real-life Minnesota town ever written.” — Vore Gidal, author of Brainerd “I thought this was going to be a book about the rapture... I was wrong.” — Sister Alissa M. Smith, Professor of English, The College of St. Scholastica “There are many reasons to leave Minnesota. Many of them can be found in the pages of this book.” — Dob Bylan, wayward son of Hibbing, MN “If Geillor tries any of his literary pastiche bullshit with my dad’s cartoon characters, I will sue the hell out of him!” — Charles S. Mulchz Jr. “I’m just glad Mr. Geillor set his book in Lake Woebegotten and not Bemidji—We have enough trouble attracting tourists.” — The Bemidji Area Chamber of Commerce “I’ve never really liked Harrison Geillor... I thought he was kind of stuck up and twee, and he did horrible impressions of me! But this book is fucking funny.” — Gesse Bentura, former professional wrestler, actor, and politician

"The town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living. Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets in order to survive an onslaught of the dead."--Publisher. This parody of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon stories includes some of Keillor's characters

The town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living. Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets, in order to survive the onslaught of the dead.

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