Author: Garrison Keillor
Narrator: Garrison Keillor
Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 09/11/2007
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.
This audio-CD of Garrison Keillor's novel, _PONTOON_, is priceless! I'm having such a good time listening to it. Garrison Keillor's dry delivery makes the story so funny that I doubt if reading the book could be more amusing. Keillor's character development is delightful. His description of each char......more
The author led me through a magical tour of Lake Wobegon with all its colorful townsfolk. It's an enchanting small town where as expected, everyone knows each other. This glorious tale whisked me through the many lives and dramas that had come to play out in amusing fashion. It was an enjoyable ride......more
The events of this short novel are the long set-up for a joke that in the end really delivered. To be honest, I was initially skeptical of this book. For 42 years Garrison Keillor narrated with affectionately benign humor the dooings of the denizens of Lake Wobegon, a stand-in for a mythical small-t......more
A schizophrenic little title, feeling somewhat like it was written by the lovechild of Jack Kerouac and Martha Stewart, Pontoon is a dryly hysterical story from NPR's very own Garrison Keillor. I'd never read anything of his before, only heard his radio show, and was surprised to find how smoothly t......more
Having been a fan of A Prairie Home Companion for years, I was excited to pick up this title while shopping with a good friend at a huge book sale in Austin. It sat on my shelf for quite a while, but recently worked its way to the top of my TBR list. Today, I read the last page, having truly dragged......more