Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

Name: Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Garrison Keillor
ISBN: 9781611746792

Author: Garrison Keillor, Richard Dworsky, Tom Keith

Narrator: Richard Dworsky, Tom Keith

Unabridged: 4 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 05/15/2012

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Humorous

Synopsis

On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women’s-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know—Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy’s ex-girlfriend Sugar O’Toole, the despicable Larry B. Larry, the dreamboat Scarlett Anderson, Mr. Kress of the FDA—and Guy faces them one by one, as he and Naomi pursue a dream of earning gazillions by selling a surefire method of dramatic weight loss. In this whirlwind caper Guy looks death in the eye, falls in love, and faces off with the capo del capo del grande primo capo Johnny Banana.

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 Sarah on January 31, 2022

What can I say, I am always going to be a Garrison Keillor fan. And listening to him read his material is my Xanax. Since I can't have the actual thing I listen to Keillor.......more

Goodreads review by Donna on August 26, 2016

I am almost always a sucker for the humor of Garrison Keillor. I have seen some reviewers recommend that one listen to his broadcasts rather than read the material here. If you have time and really like his work (and it won't go on indefinitely, folks), consider doing both. As for me, I have seen or......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 06, 2024

Came for a fun parody of the noir detective genre, got a weird incoherent pontificating mess instead. I partially read a physical version of this book and partially listened to an audio recording of it which was probably the worst way to consume this media after I learned that it was an audio drama f......more

Goodreads review by Adele on May 20, 2023

Very silly spin on the classic private eye / noir genre. I listened via audio book, which is the only way to do this one imo bc it's recorded like an old-timey radio show with different voices and sound effects, which were great. I did my fair share of eye-rolling and head-shaking while listening, b......more

Goodreads review by Beth on November 17, 2020

An amusing spoof of the grizzled private detective genre.......more