The Lake Wobegon Virus, Garrison Keillor
The Lake Wobegon Virus, Garrison Keillor
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The Lake Wobegon Virus
A Novel

Author: Garrison Keillor

Narrator: Garrison Keillor

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2020


Synopsis

Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor.

A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale.

In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears—a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

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 Lisa

Garrison Keillor takes us back for another visit to Lake Wobegon, but the bucolic town is in turmoil. Consuming unpasteurized cheese has infected our dear old Wobegonians with a virus that makes them speak their minds, a presumable horror for sedate Midwesterners. What's more, a billionaire wants to......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne

I read the first quarter of this newest Garrison Keillor book — well, actually, listened to him narrate it — on a car trip en route to Eastern Kentucky and back. So much that I had forgotten! I had forgotten how laugh-out-loud funny Keillor is. I had forgotten how memorable Lake Wobegon’s inhabitant......more

Great For Keillor Fans If you have been a Garrison Keillor fan since Prairie Home Companion and feel bad that he had to quit the show “prematurely,” you will love this book. It is full of folksy wisdom and flatulence humor and unexpected associations. But it has some painful moments, and if you don’t......more