More News from Lake Wobegon
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (932 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0942110374 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 143 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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As the host of A Prairie Home Companion for over forty years, Garrison Keillor has captivated millions of listeners with his News from Lake Wobegon monologues. He 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.
Wonderful stories and storyteller Garrison Keillor is a wonderful story teller. We started listening to News from Lake Wobegon and More news from Lake Wobegon on car trips when the kids were young. We never tired of them and always laughed and laughed. These are my favorites of all his works.. A classic! This CD helps calm my children in the evening before bed. Garrison Keillor is terrific.. Funny and then soothing L. Williams I love to give these collections of monologues to folks who are experiencing a long recovery from surgery or undergoing medical treatment. The monologues are funny to listen to, and after they have listened to them a time or two, just hearing Garrison Keillor's soothing voice has a calming effect. T
All are from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.Contents: Rotten Apples; O Death; The Wise Men; A Trip to Grand Rapids; Truckstop; Smokes; The Perils of Spring; Let Us Pray; Alaska; Uncle Al's Gift; Skinny Dip; Homecoming; Pontoon Boat; Author; Freedom of the Press; Vicks. Successor to the best-selling News from Lake Wobegon, this collection of Garrison Keillor monologues includes 16 stories, grouped by theme: Love, Faith, Hope, and Humor
A gang of kids skidding around on gravel, giggling. Charcoal smoke in the air, a whiff of burgers. Rock 'n' roll in an upstairs bedroom. Yard after yard, block after block, every sight and sound and smell utterly familiar. A dog on the porch. From the Back Cover "These days I live in big foreign cities - New York and Copenhagen - but I think about America every day and imagine a town, an avenue of old frame houses, a boulevard of tall trees, a June night, lawn sprinklers swishing across the grass and popping flower bushes by the porch. Movies and novels of brutality and greed may sell a zillion copies, but they're irrelevant to the life of this avenue, which is based of faith, hope, love and humor." -Garrison Keillor, 1989 . Lights behind the curtains. "This is the American neighborhood of childhood comfort and fantasy,