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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. Lake Wobegon Days is an affectionately humorous tribute to the small sleepy Minnesotan town of Lake Wobegon, notable for the statue to the Unknown Norwegian, the duck-hunting Sons of Knute, the sleepwalking...
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" 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,...
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2014.
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English
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The news from Lake Wobegon. Bus children ; Growing up with the Flambeaus ; My cousin Kate ; June ; Gospel birds ; Pontoon boat ; What have we learned so far? ; Chickens ; The death of Byron ; Truckstop ; Faith -- Iconic pajamas. Henry ; Little house on the desert ; Billy the Kid ; Lonesome Shorty ; The Babe ; 1951 ; Little Becky ; Casey at the bat ; Marooned ; Mother's day -- Guys I have known. Earl Grey ; Don Giovanni ; Taking a meeting with Mr....