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Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not
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Wigfield is a small bucolic hideaway, situated in front of a massive dam which is about to be torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-involved "journalist" Russell Hokes, who arrives hoping to capture the quiet dignity of the disappearing American Small Town. However, Wigfield is nether quiet nor dignified. As the date of destruction draws nearer, Hokes casts about desperate to find something about Wigfield worth documenting. WIGFIELD is a razor-sharp satire by three major talents.
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Unabridged
Street Date:
05/12/2003
Language:
English
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9781615735570
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Amy Sedaris. (2003). Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not. Unabridged HighBridge.

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Amy Sedaris. 2003. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not. HighBridge.

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Amy Sedaris, Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not. HighBridge, 2003.

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Amy Sedaris. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not. Unabridged HighBridge, 2003.

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        The authors are well-known comedians. The photographer is a famous designer. The result is unlike anything the genre of humorous fiction has seen before. The book tells, sort of, the story of Wigfield, a small town that realizes it's in danger when the government wants to destroy a local dam in order to protect the local salmon population. Faced with imminent flood, the town solicits Russell Hokes, a self-centered hack journalist, who hopes to capture the undying spirit of the all-American small town. Wigfield, alas, is very far from living up to the bucolic image it intends to foster, and as the dam draws nearer to destruction, so does Wigfield's self-created myth. The plot unfolds as a series of interviews Hokes conducts with local residents, accompanied by droll, surreal photographs by Oldham. In the end, Hokes succeeds in his goal, which is, as he notes in his attached résumé, to "write a book, other than the ones that I have already written, so that I may use my words like a sword of swift justice in service of the truth, but in an easy-to-read, highly marketable way." He does so, however, not by creating a Capraesque tribute to smalltown America, but by unwittingly exposing the bumbling foolery beneath its surface. The book is one of those rare works of satire that combine creative form, uproariously funny text and a painfully sharp underpinning of social criticism. (May)Forecast:Sedaris, Dinello and Colbert have been appearing together on stage since they met at Chicago's Second City. The book will be cross-promoted with their performances (if only they were doing readings, too!), and will likely get plenty of media attention, particularly in the alternative press.

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