Leaving Home
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140131604 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Change of pace reading. Josephine Irvine-Groves If you've listened to "A Prairie Home Companion" on the radio, you already know the characters. You can almost hear the author's droll, slowdelivery of the plot lines.. Amazon Customer said Great read. This was a very enjoyable read. Found the story to be heartfelt .. If you love Brookner, here's another one. Since her Booker Prize for Hotel du Lac, Brookner has simply repeated her winning formula: lonely single Brit woman lives out her wretchedly monastic bookish life, in minute detail, page after page, making all the wrong, lonely sad choices (staying with the demanding mother; never leaving the family apartment, rejecting the suitor) so that you, the reader, can feel better by comparison. Read this on a rainy day. Or after you've been laid off. Or your boyfriend's left you. Brookner always makes you feel better, because you couldn't possibly be as miserable as her sad, lonely protagon
Garrison Keillor, author of nearly a dozen books, is founder and host of the acclaimed radio show A Prairie Home Companion and the daily program The Writer's Almanac. He is also a regular contributor to Time magazine.
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.
These short narratives survive the transition from performance to print beautifully; they are spare, artfully crafted vignettes that will move readers as well as entertain them. Some tales are wildly hilarious, others gently poignantbut all are simply wonderful. This collection of stories set in Lake Wobegon is taken from monologues performed on A Prairie Home Companion, Keillor's radio show; each one chronicles some kind of leave-taking or homecoming: trips to Minneapolis, high school graduations, attending the Minnesota State Fair, a waitress quitting her job at the Chatterbox Cafe, a boy joining the army, Father Emil retiring from Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, family members returning to Lake Wobegon for Christmas. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly "Home," in Keillor's fictional world, is Lake Wobegon (the "Gateway to Ce