John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And he falls in love with an historian named Alida Freeman, hard at work on a book about a nineteenth-century Norwegian naturopath, an acquaintance of Lincoln, Thoreau, Whitman, and Susan B. Anthony.
- ISBN13 9780571193516
- Publish Date 27 July 1998 (first published 5 March 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 328
- Language English