Lake Wobegon Days

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101640286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
“Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” —The New York Times “A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life…Keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.” —Chicago Tribune “Keillor’s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength….His true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. Keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears…to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. He is a brilliant parodist.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Leaving Home

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101644702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces.

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101495693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Meet fourteen-year-old Gary. A self-described "tree-toad,"a sly and endearing geek, Gary has many unwieldy passions, chief among them his cousin Kate, his Underwood typewriter and the soft-porn masterpiece, High School Orgies. The folks of Lake Wobegon don't have much patience for a kid's ungodly obsessions, and so Gary manages to filter the hormonal earthquake that is puberty and his hopeless devotion to glamorous, rebellious Kate through his fantastic yarns. With every marvellous story he moves a few steps closer to becoming a writer. And when Kate gets herself into trouble with the local baseball star, Gary also experiences the first pangs of a broken heart. With his trademark gift for treading "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment"(Cleveland Plain Dealer), Garrison Keillor brilliantly captures a newly minted post-war America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about a writer coming of age in the rural Midwest.

Pontoon

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Garrison Keillor makes his long- awaited return to Lake Wobegon with this New York Times bestseller The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form-replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally's pontoon boat. As the wedding of the decade approaches (accompanied by wheels of imported cheese and giant shrimp shish kebabs), the good-loving people of Lake Wobegon do what they do best: drive each other slightly crazy.

In Search of Lake Wobegon

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Studio
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.

Lake Wobegon Days

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140131612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Summer

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8

Book Description

Lake Wobegon Days

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780780744141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Leaving Home

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140131604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces.

Wobegon Boy

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101640219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
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.