Boom Town By Garrison Keillor
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Boom Town By Garrison Keillor
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05-15
Boom Town By Garrison Keillor written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-15 with Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place) categories.
Cheerfulness is a choice. Happiness is circumstantial, joy is for special occasions, bliss is brief (except for blissful ignorance), jubilation is rare and elation even more so, contentment is lovely but easily broken, glee is often cruel, triumph is beyond the pale, delight is inexplicable, gaiety was possible once and now it belongs to Dan and George, but cheerfulness is a simple practical option: put yesterdaybehind and seize the day. Try it tomorrow morning and make it work.
Boom Town
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03-14
Boom Town written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-14 with categories.
With Boom Town, Garrison Keillor returns to his hometown of Lake Wobegon, which is in the midst of a rising economic tide driven by millennialentrepreneurs. "I go back home mainly for funerals, which these days are for people my age, 79, which gets my attention, an obituary with my number in it," he writes, as he sits at the bedside of Arlene Bunsen dying with humor and grace, and recalls a teenage love affair with Marlys Gunderson and observes the millennial culture, a stark contrast to the Lutheran farm town of the radio monologues. He spends the summer in the old Gunderson lake cabin, reliving the past, postponing his return to New York and his wife Giselle.Garrison Keillor wrote Boom Town during the pandemic lockdown in New York,reading drafts of it to his wife, Jenny, sitting across the room. He did parts of the book in monologues for audiences in Boston, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Virginia, along with the story of how, in the 8th grade, his shop teacher Orville Buehler, worried about the boy's carelessness with the power saw, sent him up to LaVona Person's speech class, thus changing his life. Keillor says, "For many people, the key to success is discipline and education, but for me, it was ineptitude with power tools."
Lake Wobegon Days
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1990-04-01
Lake Wobegon Days written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-01 with Fiction categories.
“Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” —The New York Times “A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life…Keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.” —Chicago Tribune “Keillor’s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength….His true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. Keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears…to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. He is a brilliant parodist.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Leaving Home
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1990-04-01
Leaving Home written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-01 with Fiction categories.
In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces.
Pontoon
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-09-11
Pontoon written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-11 with Fiction categories.
Garrison Keillor makes his long- awaited return to Lake Wobegon with this New York Times bestseller The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form-replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally's pontoon boat. As the wedding of the decade approaches (accompanied by wheels of imported cheese and giant shrimp shish kebabs), the good-loving people of Lake Wobegon do what they do best: drive each other slightly crazy.
In Search Of Lake Wobegon
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher: Studio
Release Date : 2001
In Search Of Lake Wobegon written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by Studio this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.
Boom Town
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Author : Sonia Levitin
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Boom Town written by Sonia Levitin and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her townt
That Time Of Year
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-12-01
That Time Of Year written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2002-08-27
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-27 with Fiction categories.
Meet fourteen-year-old Gary. A self-described "tree-toad,"a sly and endearing geek, Gary has many unwieldy passions, chief among them his cousin Kate, his Underwood typewriter and the soft-porn masterpiece, High School Orgies. The folks of Lake Wobegon don't have much patience for a kid's ungodly obsessions, and so Gary manages to filter the hormonal earthquake that is puberty and his hopeless devotion to glamorous, rebellious Kate through his fantastic yarns. With every marvellous story he moves a few steps closer to becoming a writer. And when Kate gets herself into trouble with the local baseball star, Gary also experiences the first pangs of a broken heart. With his trademark gift for treading "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment"(Cleveland Plain Dealer), Garrison Keillor brilliantly captures a newly minted post-war America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about a writer coming of age in the rural Midwest.
We Are Still Married
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Author : Garrison Keillor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1990-04-01
We Are Still Married written by Garrison Keillor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-01 with Fiction categories.
“Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip——The Washington Post Book World “Keillor’s literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal delivery. It can slip from mood to mood so subtly and quickly you’re never quite sure where you are…. [His] writing has the silvery slip of running water, so graceful and easy it’s hard to believe it can carry so much that is jagged and unresolved. His integrity lies in his not smoothing away those rough edges in the swift current of his prose; they’re bruisingly, sometimes cuttingly there.” —The Village Voice