Pontoon

A Lake Wobegon Novel

Garrison Keillor

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571267828
• Year: 2011

In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who wishes for her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake. Meanwhile, a wedding between a veterinary aromatherapist and her boyfriend Brent is set to take place aboard a pontoon boat. A delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark has come to town, and there's Raoul of the cigars and tinted shades, come to visit his elderly lover. All is in readiness for the wedding - the French champagne, the flying Elvis, the giant duck decoys - and then something quite unexpected happens . . .

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• Pontoon
• 1. GOOD NIGHT, LADIES
• 2. BARBARA’S DISCOVERY
• 3. OBITUARY
• 4. SEPARATION
• 5. THEY TAKE HER AWAY
• 6. THE SARAH PROBLEM
• 7. FINDING RAOUL
• 8. QUILTERS
• 9. DEBBIE COMES TO TOWN
• 10. THE SALON WEIGHS IN
• 11. THE DECLINE OF MR. DETMER
• 12. ATHEISM DISCOVERED
• 13. GIANT DUCKS
• 14. KYLE SURVIVES A CRASH
• 15. THE GROOM SHOWS UP
• 16. IN RECOVERY
• 17. BREAKING UP
• 18. SHE SENDS HIM PACKING
• 19. A PASTORAL CALL
• 20. HOMECOMING
• 21. MEANWHILE
• 22. SATURDAY MORNING
• 23. PHYSICS
• 24. THE KISS
• EPILOGUE
• About the Author
• Copyright