A Christmas Blizzard, Garrison Keillor
A Christmas Blizzard, Garrison Keillor
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A Christmas Blizzard

Author: Garrison Keillor

Narrator: Garrison Keillor

Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2009

Categories: Fiction, Ghost, Humorous


Synopsis

A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard.

A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he’s not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday. In his reverie, our man reaches an epiphany worthy of the season—he hears the harkening angels sing, he is awed by the silence of the night (dead quiet: not even TV) and when he is finally rescued, leaves North Dakota resolved to simplify his life.

About Garrison Keillor

As the host of A Prairie Home Companion for over forty years, Garrison Keillor has captivated millions of listeners with his weekly News from Lake Wobegon monologues. Keillor 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. His many books include Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny, and The Keillor Reader. He is the host of the daily program The Writer's Almanac and the editor of several anthologies of poetry. A Prairie Home Companion is heard on hundreds of public radio stations, as well as America One, the Armed Forces Networks, Sirius Satellite Radio, and via a live audio webcast. When not touring, he resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessaka on December 31, 2017

A Bizarre Christmas Book, Our Daily Press Interviews Our Book Group, and Hallmark Christmas Movies Our small town Daily Press sent a young man to interview our book group while we were reviewing this lovely book. Lovely. No, bizarre and boring. Still, we had a fun meeting showing off our skills to th......more

Goodreads review by Peter on December 11, 2017

What an amazingly wonderful Christmas story. I’ll post my full review on my booktube channel at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Maria on March 22, 2014

Book Title: The Christmas Blizzard Author: Garrison Keillor Genre: General Fiction, Humor Rating: 4 Stars Format: Book on CD If you've ever listened to Garrison Keillor on "A Prairie Home Companion" telling the tales of Lake Woebegon, you'll know what a joy it is to listen to a storyteller weave a tale t......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on December 16, 2016

I FINALLY finished this. I thought I would be in love with every single moment of this novel. And I was--for the first hour or so (I listened to it). I really love Garrison Keillor. He is warm, comforting, and funny, and I thought there could be nothing better than a Garrison Keillor Christmas tale.......more

Goodreads review by Judy on January 07, 2012

This starts off wonderfully, but I think it comes slightly unstuck with some supernatural content, which isn't Keillor's natural territory. However, his humour and vivid depiction of smalltown life still make it well worth reading.......more