Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegone Stories.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published in USA in 1987 by Viking Penguin Inc.(NY) and simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd.,Ontario.3 of these stories also, originally appeared in 'The Atlantic'.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by Pierre le Tan,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears - though 3 of the four folds on bottom edge each have the tiniest of snicks.Top+fore-edges aged/toned though generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound with inevitable page-edge toning but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked white ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xxiii(23)pp+1-244pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,an introduction,36 short stories - 3 of which: 'A Trip to Grand Rapids','The Killer' and 'Chicken' first appeared in 'The Atlantic'; plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title+title pages,a dedication,a poem/verses,title separator page and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
'It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon,my home town.'
Every Saturday night for over a decade,Garrison Keillor would take millions of delighted radio listeners back to 'the town that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve' - the now-celebrated setting for Lake Wobegon Days.
Now in his first collection of Lake Wobegon stories,Keillor takes his readers back to that world too,the place that is everyone's home town 'where all the women are strong,all the men are good-looking,and all the children are above-average'.
'Leaving Home' is a tribute to the life and the people of Lake Wobegon, an elegy and a celebration,narrated with the gentle wit for which Garrison Keillor has been acclaimed throughout the world.From 1974 to 1987 he was host of the popular live radio show A Prairie Home Companion. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.
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