Wigfield : the can-do town that just may not / Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert ; photographs by Todd Oldham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedaris, Amy.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Dinello, Paul.

Colbert, Stephen, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Journalists--Fiction.

Journalists.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hyperion, [2003]

Summary:

A hilarious illustrated satire of a Lake Wobegon gone hideously wrong and the earnest reporter who hopes to save it from extinction Wigfield is a town in danger. Built directly in front of a massive dam, this bucolic hideaway will soon be flooded when the dam is torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-aggrandizing, self-involved "journalist" Russell Hokes, who arrives hoping to capture the quiet dignity of the disappearing American Small Town. However, Wigfield is neither quiet nor dignified. And as the date of Wigfield's destruction draws nearer, Hokes casts about like a cork in a typhoon desperate to find something about Wigfield worth documenting--or saving. Told through interviews with its many colorful residents, and accompanied by photos of the authors in character, Wigfield is a razor-sharp satire by three major talents. Praise for Wigfield

ISBN:

0786868120

OCLC:

51041798