Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
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Lake Wobegon Days

Author: Garrison Keillor

Narrator: Garrison Keillor

Abridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/1986

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

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 also includes a few segments taken from live performances recorded during a fundraising tour for public radio stations in 1985.

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 October 09, 2021

Lake Wobegon. I have tried to read you over the years and every time I picked you up I was bored out of my mind. This time I tried audio. That helped. I can see why people love to listen to you; I can see why people don’t like to listen to you. So, Lake Wobegon was founded by Unitarians, and it seeme......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 22, 2016

This is a light-hearted nostalgic look by Garrison Keillor looking backwards to more halcyon days of America that was originally broadcast on NPR as a radio series. It is very funny and touching and a light read for when you are tired of the terrifying headlines. It is also worthwhile to seek out th......more

Goodreads review by Paul on May 14, 2013

Ah, I miss the old days, those innocent Goodreads days of pretzels and beer, Wittgenstein and Gertrude Stein, and of course, Celebrity Death Matches. So I'm reviving one of my personal favourites. I call it... CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH No 83. BOY GEORGE : Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome Meine Damen und Her......more

Goodreads review by erin on January 31, 2007

I'm amazed that Garrison Keillor is seen as the written equivalent of Norman Rockwell; His stories are only nostalgic if you aren't paying attention. The Lake Wobegone of his childhood is a dark, oppressive place, where the laughs are generally at someone's expense and everlasting embarrassment. For......more

Goodreads review by Cyndi on October 10, 2017

Although I liked this book ok, I really wanted to like it more. The stories are cute, homespun tales of life in a small town in Minnesota during the 60's? 70's? I'm not actually sure and that's one of the problems I had with this book. I'm pretty sure the intention was to show the way life doesn't c......more

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