Lake Wobegon Days - Softcover

Keillor, Garrison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140131612 ISBN 13: 9780140131611

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

Synopsis

“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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Garrison Keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability - both in print and in performance - to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor, tenderness, and grace. This recording of Keillor reading his own novel, Lake Wobegon Days, is a carefully edited abridgement of the book and includes a few segments taken from live performances recorded during a fundraising tour for public radio stations in 1985.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140131612
• ISBN 13: 9780140131611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Illustrator: Lynch Mike