Lake Wobegon Days
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"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…
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Lake Wobegon Days begins Keillor’s epic creation of a mythical and nostalgic world, entire unto itself.
The obvious analogy is the world of P. G. Wodehouse. But Wodehouse centres his world on the English country estate, and the froth and frolics of the toffs (albeit undercut by the wily wisdom of Jeeves), whereas Keillor takes us deep into the American heartland, where life is lived close to the soil, and the humour is tinged with the darkness of hard choices and wrong turns - and imbued with the absurdity of the human condition.
There’s fun and laughter aplenty because it’s…
In 1985, back when I had only one job at a time, we bought our first house, a 70-year-old, two-story monster built back when it was in the good part of town. The next Saturday evening, I heard something and investigated.
The guy next door was leaning back in a chair, his feet propped on the porch rail, sipping a glass of iced tea, and listening to a radio show. And thus, I discovered Garrison Keillor and Lake Wobegon.
I recognized the people. I grew up with them in Fred, Texas. They hang out at the Sidetrack Tap and the…
From Brad's list on heartwarming stories about life in a small town.
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