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Leaving Home
by Garrison Keillor
ISBN: 0140131604
ISBN-13: 9780140131604
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Thirty-six monologues from Keillor's radio show A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, plus "A Letter from Copenhagen," in which Keillor discusses his disaffection with celebrity and the big city encroaching on his hometown.
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"'Leaving Home' will most likely make Garrison Keillor's fans love him all the more. For you who don't like him or have not taken the time to shape an opinion, I recommend that you at least go to a bookstore and open the book to a story at random and read it while standing up. They're short enough to do that without getting tired. For some of you, they will make you remember the home you never had. -- Spalding Gray
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 1992
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.45 pounds
Pages: 258
Publisher's Notes
Revisit the beguiling comic world of Lake Wobegon. In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers ore about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces. "Leaving Home is a book of exceptional charm . . . delightful . . . genuinely touching".--The Wall Street Journal. Available in early December.
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NY: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; This 1st edition carries ISBN 067081976x but is the same book as later printings. Bk: ink name front free endpaper / DJ: 2 small holes punched top of front flap (1 through price); slight spine fading; light edgewear 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to; 244 pages . ( more information)
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New York: Penguin. April 1, 1990. Paperback. Near Fine. "Home," in Keillor's fictional world, is Lake Wobegon (the "Gateway to Cent ral Minnesota"), which the radio humorist introduced in print in Lake Wobeg on Days. This collection of stories set in Lake Wobegon is taken from monol ogues 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 qui tting her job at the Chatterbox Cafe, a boy joining the army, Father Emil r etiring from Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, family members returning to Lake Wobegon for Christmas. In the last story, from Keillor's final sho w, the storyteller bids farewell to his beloved hometown. Keillor has a rar e gift for celebrating and finding humor in commonplace events, and his aff ection for his characters and for small- town life shines through. These sho rt 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 poignantb ut all are simply wonderful. ( more information)
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Penguin, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. PW: "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 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,--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ( more information)
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