Copyright © 2019 by Bill Geist

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Art direction by Claire Brown 
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Geist, William, author.
Title: Lake of the Ozarks : my surreal summers in a vanishing America / Bill
Geist.
Description: New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018048035 | ISBN 9781538729809 (hardcover) | ISBN
9781538729816 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Geist, William—Childhood and youth. | Ozarks, Lake of the,
Region (Mo.)—Social life and customs—20th century. | Summer
resorts—Missouri—Ozarks, Lake of the, Region—Anecdotes. | Teenage
boys—Missouri—Biography. | Teenagers—Missouri—Social life and
customs—20th century. | Missouri—Social life and customs—20th
century—Anecdotes. | Summer employment—Missouri—Anecdotes. |
Youth—Employment—Missouri—Anecdotes. | Coming of age.
Classification: LCC F472.O93 G45 2019 | DDC 977.8/493—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018048035

ISBNs: 978-1-5387-2980-9 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-2981-6 (ebook), 978-1-5387-1637-3 (B&N.com signed edition)

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