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Book Description: HighBridge Audio. 5 Audio Book CD(s), 2009. soft. Book Condition: New. Snow is falling across the Midwest as James and Joyce Sparrow awaken in their ten-room apartment overlooking Chicago—he, dreading Christmas, and she, adoring it but down with stomach flu. His dreams of a Hawaiian vacation are sidelined when a phone call from his North Dakota hometown sends him flying into a blizzard to see his dying Uncle Earl. Confronted by dark memories and stranded by the storm, James camps out in a fishing shack on the ice of Lake Winnesissebigosh and is visited by a wolf, a Big-Hair lady, and a Chinese wise man from the Inner Sunset, each with a lesson on life. Garrison Keillor reads his own unabridged story with his usual dry humor."Keillor returns to the snowy Midwest to deliver a Dickensian tale of Chicago yuppies James and Joyce Sparrow, who venture to Looseleaf, North Dakota, to see James's dying uncle, braving a deadly blizzard and equally deadly small town eccentrics. The simple and well-written story is taken to fresh heights by the author's obvious pleasure in reading his own work. This polished production brims with seasonal cheer, caustic wit, and Keillor's signature folksy style."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Garrison Keillor's A Christmas Blizzard has clear parallels to Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'—except it's nuttier. Phobia-ridden tycoon James Sparrow thumbs a big 'bah humbug' at Christmas and has one foot out the door to Hawaii even though his holiday-loving wife is prostrate with the flu. But news that his favorite uncle is on his deathbed diverts Sparrow to his North Dakota hometown. When a blizzard strands him, Sparrow finds himself overnighting in a fishing shack, entertaining visions and relatives who propel him toward happiness. In this manic lead-up to Christmas Eve, Keillor exhibits his brilliance for drawing spot-on caricatures."—Washington Post 5 hrs/2009. Bookseller Inventory # 20134

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Book Description: Compact Disc. Book Condition: New. 131mm x 15mm x 151mm. 0.145. Bookseller Inventory # 9781598879278

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Book Description: Highbridge Company, United States, 2009. CD-Audio. Book Condition: New. Unabridged. 151 x 131 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard. A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he 's not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday. In his reverie, our man reaches an epiphany worthy of the season he hears the harkening angels sing, he is awed by the silence of the night (dead quiet: not even TV) and when he is finally rescued, leaves North Dakota resolved to simplify his life. Bookseller Inventory # AAS9781598879278

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Book Description: Highbridge Company. CD-Audio. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, A Christmas Blizzard, Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor, A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard. A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he's not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday. In his reverie, our man reaches an epiphany worthy of the season-he hears the harkening angels sing, he is awed by the silence of the night (dead quiet: not even TV) and when he is finally rescued, leaves North Dakota resolved to simplify his life. Bookseller Inventory # B9781598879278

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Book Description: Highbridge Co, 2009. No binding. Book Condition: New. New audiobook. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # KA-9781598879278

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