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Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
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Lake Wobegon Days (original 1985; edition 1990)

by Garrison Keillor, Mike Lynch (Illustrator)

Series: Lake Wobegon (1)

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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 exclusive recording of Garrison Keillor reading 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.… (more)
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Title:Lake Wobegon Days
Authors:Garrison Keillor
Other authors:Mike Lynch (Illustrator)
Info:Penguin (Non-Classics) (1990), Paperback, 352 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:***1/2
Tags:fiction, short stories, humour, family, Minnesota

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Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor (1985)

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Keillor's monologues, presented here as short stories, remind me of the small town I grew up in. They are about a place and time that was not better than now, and not necessarily worse, but memorable. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
Such fun! ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
Wry humour about character types and social groupings that I recognise well. ( )
  sfj2 | Jun 14, 2023 |
Perhaps if I had read this book 30 years ago, or if I knew anything about small town America I may have enjoyed it more. It is well written, though not particularly well proof read in the version I read. The format wasn't brilliant, but then book publishing has moved on. ( )
  pedrodeg | Mar 28, 2022 |
Keillor at his best. Many stories in the book were broadcast on Prairie Home Companion. ( )
  hcubic | Jul 11, 2020 |
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Garrison Keillorprimary authorall editionscalculated
Lindenburg, MiekeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lynch, MikeIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Dogs don't lie, and why should I?
Strangers come, they growl and bark.
They know their loved ones in the dark.
Now let me, by night or day,
Be just as full of truth as they.
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To Margaret, my love
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The town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota,* lies on the shore against Adams Hill, looking east across the blue-green water to the dark woods.
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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 exclusive recording of Garrison Keillor reading 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.

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