Lake Wobegon Days

by Garrison Keillor, Mike Lynch (Illustrator)

Overview

“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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101640289
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/1990
Series:	Lake Wobegon Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	189,169
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Hometown:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Date of Birth:

August 7, 1942

Place of Birth:

Anoka, Minnesota

Education:

B.A., University of Minnesota, 1966

Editorial Reviews

''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. -- New York Times

Veronica Geng