Lake Wobegon Days

by Garrison Keillor

Based on the enormously popular "Prairie Home Companion", Keillor's show on public radio, this collection of stories of modern Midwestern life skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists in the mid 1980s, and remained there. In this small Minnesota town, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The book won the collective heart of the country, and critics found it impossible to refrain from quoting sizable portions of it in their reviews.

Editions of Lake Wobegon Days

ISBN 9781417618729	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 1990	Price $9.36	Very Good
ISBN 9780896216860	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1986	Price $3.75	Good
ISBN 9780140092325	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Books	Date 1986	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780140131611	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1995	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780670805143	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Penguin USA	Date 1985	Price $1.00	Good

Publisher Notes

A young narrator chronicles his coming-of-age in Minnesota's Lake Wobegon, a fictitious small town where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Media Reviews

"'Lake Wobegon Days' is about the way our beliefs, desires, and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. Mr. Keillor is well quipped to understand this process, since, by his account, he grew up in the fundamentalist religion of the Sanctified Brethren, perfectionists at splitting into infinite subsects over points of doctrine....[This book] is a genuine work of American history."