Garrison Keillor, Author . Viking $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-03246-4
An obscure Minneapolis writer is touched by the "kiss of fame" in Keillor's latest, a sly romantic comedy-cum-literary satire that begins when Larry Wyler's first novel, Spacious Skies, takes off and hits the bestseller list. Wyler...
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Garrison Keillor, Author Viking Books $18.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-82647-6
The Wizard of Lake Woebegon here collects ``in one neat pile'' 10 poems and 57 prose pieces, ranging in length from less than a page to as many as 22, ``written at the time of Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American...
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Garrison Keillor, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81976-8
""Home,'' in Keillor's fictional world, is Lake Wobegon (the ``Gateway to Central Minnesota''), which the radio humorist introduced in print in Lake Wobegon Days. This collection of stories set in Lake Wobegon is taken from monologues performed on A
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Garrison Keillor, Author Penguin Books $16 (416p) ISBN 978-0-14-010380-9
Popular radio host Keillor's fictional history of a Minneapolis radio station-a seven-week PW bestseller and a BOMC featured alternate in clothprovides poignant reminders of a time that never was but probably should have been. (Nov.)
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Garrison Keillor, Author Penguin Books $15 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-023372-8
Keillor's humorous collection of stories about manhood in the '90s was a seven-week PW bestseller. (Sept.)
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Garrison Keillor, Author Penguin Books $16 (400p) ISBN 978-0-14-013156-7
``The Wizard of Lake Wobegon here collects `in one neat pile' 10 poems and 57 prose pieces, ranging in length from less than a page to as many as 22. . . . Taken singly, the pieces amuse, bemuse or arouse; in bulk, they stand up less well, because...
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Garrison Keillor, Author Viking $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-87807-9
Can it really be 10 years since Lake Wobegon Days showed that Keillor's hilarious and sometimes poignant stories about his imagined Minnesota town could please a multitude of readers as much as they delighted a huge radio audience? This time Keillor
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Garrison Keillor, Author Viking $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-84943-7
Bewailing the lost grandeur of manhood and lambasting the half-baked perversion known as '90s man, Keillor ( Lake Woebegon Days ) brings wit, the gift of storytelling and marksmanlike satire to this collection of 22 short fictions dissecting the...
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Garrison Keillor, Author Viking $21.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-81857-0
On the air and in print, Keillor has been telling wonderful stories for years, but this is his first novel. It is, as you might expect, brimful of characters, full of northwoods angst, spiced with a little sex, and cynicism and sentiment have been...
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Garrison Keillor, Author . Viking $25.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-670-01991-5
Clint Bunsen of Keillor's Lake Wobegon is planning his sixth Fourth of July celebration, but by the time it rolls around he's been booted from the planning committee; his wife, Irene, is chillier than ever; and his 60-something hormones...
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Garrison Keillor, Author . Viking $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-06356-7
K eillor's delightful latest addition to the Lake Wobegon series, set in the fictional Minnesota town known to legions of A Prairie Home Companion
radio show fans, opens with a typically laconic musing: “Evelyn was an insomniac, so when...
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Garrison Keillor, Author . Viking $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-03365-2
His Minnesota boyhood and the putative values of his state allow novelist and NPR favorite Keillor to conjure up a heartwarming case for liberalism, if not necessarily the Democratic Party platform. "[T]he social compact is still intact here,"
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Garrison Keillor, Performed by , read by the author and a full cast. HighBridge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-027-5
This unique collection of skits, songs and "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues from the radio show A Prairie Home Companion
is gleaned from over 30 years of the popular program. Longtime fans will hear some of their favorites, including "
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Garrison Keillor, read by the author. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, three CDs, 3.25 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-550-4
If there’s something worth talking about in the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor has probably covered it on his radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. But despite his decades of telling Wobegon tales, listeners will find this latest...
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Garrison Keillor, Performed by , performed by the author. HighBridge $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-786-0
Those who love Keillor's long-running radio broadcast, A Prairie Home Companion
, will cherish this collection of stories harvested from shows aired between 1999 and 2003. The hushed intensity of Keillor's voice lulls listeners into a world...
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Garrison Keillor, read by Garrison Keillor and a full cast. Highbridge Audio, unabridged, four CDs, 4 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-678-5
Garrison Keillor’s trademark dry humor and facility for recreating old-time radio shows—background organ music and all—are on display in this lighthearted, entertaining expansion of a popular skit from A Prairie Home Companion that parodies hard-boil
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Garrison Keillor, Read by , read by the author. HighBridge $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-927-8
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A Christmas Blizzard
Garrison Keillor
, read by the author. HighBridge
, unabridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $26.95 ISBN 978-1-59887-927-8
Keillor returns to the snowy...
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Garrison Keillor, Read by , read by the author. HighBridge Audio $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-928-4
Characteristically soothing and lyrical, Keillor's voice takes on an almost preachy tone in this polemic against the "hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills" that he feels populate the Republican party. Though Democrats will...
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Garrison Keillor, Read by , read by the author. HighBridge Audio $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-5988-7522-5
In the wake of Evelyn's death, the residents of Lake Wobegon ride higher waves of absurdity and simplicity than ever before. Her last words reveal a whole other life few knew about and cast a wide net of influence on the community, not the...
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Robin Preiss Glasser, Illustrator , illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser. Hyperion $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1986-7
This title character, as pictured by Glasser (A Is for Abigail
), embraces life with enthusiasm and style. Prairie Home Companion
host Keillor's four doting songs celebrate the loving relationship between a father and his daughter, but it's
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator, Lou Fancher, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-85112-6
What happens to an uppity cat when she gets a taste of the ``good life''? When Keillor does the spinning, the tale takes a slyly farcical turn, like the best of his Prairie Home Companion radio skits. Bouncy, syncopated verse (adapted from one of...
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Various, Author, Garrison Keillor, Editor Viking Books $25.95 (504p) ISBN 978-0-670-03126-9
Poetry is a regular feature on Garrison Keillor's NPR radio show A Prairie Home Companion, but for the last five years, it has formed the core of The Writer's Almanac, a daily, five-minute, 7 a.m. show on which Keillor reads a poem. Good Poems...
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Anne Wilsdorf, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-48615-6
With a whiff of limburger and a touch of Lake Wobegon, humorist Keillor (Cat, You Better Come Home) serves up the story of Wallace P. Flynn, a man so enamored of smelly cheese that he is arrested by the Cheese Brigade of the Diet Patrol for smelling
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Anne Wilsdorf, Illustrator Megan Tingley Books $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-48610-1
""With a whiff of limburger and a touch of Lake Wobegon, Keillor serves up the story of a man so enamored of malodorous cheese that he is arrested for smelling up the neighborhood,"" said PW of this slapstick rhyme. All ages. (Sept.)
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator, Lou Fancher, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-14-056227-9
A cat runs away from home to live the high life in a verse tale that ""takes a slyly farcical turn, like the best of [Keillor's] Prairie Home Companion radio skits,"" said PW. Ages 4-up. (Aug.)
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Jenny Lind Nilsson, With Hyperion Books $14.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0173-2
Debuting as a writing team, Keillor (Lake Wobegon Days) and his musician wife, Nilsson, offer a keenly perceptive slice of Midwestern life as they evoke the muddled emotions of a 14-year-old violinist from Sandy Bottom, Wis., a place as uninspired...
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Garrison Keillor, Author, Molly Stern, Editor, Joseph E. LeDoux, Author . Viking $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-03003-3
With a four-year hiatus since Wobegon Boy, legions of Keillor faithful will likely hold candlelight vigils in front of their favorite booksellers awaiting the arrival of this long overdue episode in the ongoing checkered history of the fictional...
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