We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters - Hardcover

Keillor, Garrison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670826472 ISBN 13: 9780670826476

Publisher: The Viking Press, 1989

Synopsis

The warm and witty author of "Leaving Home" and "Lake Wobegone Days" discusses various aspects of life in America, from true "hometown" baseball to sitting in an airport and listening to the singing of a mechanical rabbit

About this title

About the Author:

Garrison Keillor, author of nearly a dozen books, is founder and host of the acclaimed radio show A Prairie Home Companion and the daily program The Writer's Almanac. He is also a regular contributor to Time magazine.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Wizard of Lake Woebegon here collects "in one neat pile" 10 poems and 57 prose pieces, ranging in length from less than a page to as many as 22, "written at the time of Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people." Selected mostly from his contributions to the New Yorker , these short works by the Minnesota humorist "who does comedy in slow motion" vary in subject matter from porches, cold, Gettysburg, yard sales, sneezes, Woodlawn Cemetery and travel notes to the fate of the last cigarette smokers in the U.S., how to write 50-word postcards gracefully, the hardships of serving in the Indiana National Guard's public information battalion and "The Meaning of Life," described as "the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor." Taken singly, the pieces amuse, bemuse or arouse; in bulk, they stand up less well, because they are repetitive and not fully developed.
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About this edition

• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0670826472
• ISBN 13: 9780670826476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304