Life These Days: Stories from Lake Wobegon

Keillor, Garrison

ISBN 10: 1565113071 ISBN 13: 9781565113077

Publisher: HighBridge Audio, 1998

Synopsis

Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award for Best Short Stories Wherever Garrison Keillor's imagination takes him, the road back to Lake Wobegon is always a delightful one. His story collections about "the little town that time forgot" are his most popular; this Lake Wobegon collection features 11 wonderful stories recorded from live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.Life these days in Lake Wobegon means shirtsleeve autumns and late-starting winters. Meanwhile, a bus full of Lutheran men attends the Risk Takers convention in Minneapolis to do the unthinkable: express their emotions. Pastor Ingqvist interviews for a job at the Mall of America. The Ingqvists' elderly dog discovers the fountain of youth. The website for the World's Largest Pile of Burlap Bags (www.wlpbb) opens a window on Lake Wobegon to the world.And as a special bonus, Life These Days includes a never-before-available Keillor short story, "Spring."Contents:Gladys Hits A Raccoon; The World's Largest Pile; My Cousin Rose; The Risk Takers; Pastor Ingqvist at the Mall; Hunting Stories; Sorrows of January; Clarence Cleans His Roof; Miracle of the Pastor's Dog; War of the Krebsbachs; Graduation

About this title

About the Author:

As the host of A Prairie Home Companion for over forty years, Garrison Keillor has captivated millions of listeners with his News from Lake Wobegon monologues. He has been honored with Grammy, ACE, and George Foster Peabody awards, the National Humanities Medal, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

From AudioFile:

This anthology of Keillor's monologues about his fictional hometown, Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, is recycled from tapes of the humorist's "Prairie Home Companion" public radio program. Fans of the show will find friendly, familiar ground here, as the humorist hasn't varied his schtick in decades. Those who have read but not heard Keillor will get a pleasant lesson in the raconteurship that has made him the most popular personality on the public airwaves. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: HighBridge Audio
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1565113071
• ISBN 13: 9781565113077
• Binding: Audio CD
• Edition number: 3