The Keillor reader

Keillor, Garrison.

Large Print 2014

When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done -- a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive in...

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ISBN:

9781410470430
1410470431

Edition:

Large print edition

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719 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Works. Selections

Contents:

I. The news from Lake Wobegon. Bus children ; Growing up with the Flambeaus ; My cousin Kate ; June ; Gospel birds ; Pontoon boat ; What have we learned so far? ; Chickens ; The death of Byron ; Truckstop ; Faith
II. Iconic pajamas. Henry ; Little house on the desert ; Billy the Kid ; Lonesome Shorty ; The Babe ; 1951 ; Little Becky ; Casey at the bat ; Marooned ; Mother's day
III. Guys I have known. Earl Grey ; Don Giovanni ; Taking a meeting with Mr. Roast Beef ; Your book saved my life, Mister ; Zeus the Lutheran ; Al Denny ; Jimmy seeks his fortune in Fairbanks ; At The New Yorker: My own memoir ; Snowman
IV. Life's little day. Rules of orchestra ; Five columns ; A speech to the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner ; Chet ; Mark ; What a luxury ; My life in prison ; Drowning 1954 ; College days ; My stroke (I'm over it) ; Home ; Anglicans ; The owl and the pussycat ; Cheerfulness

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2014011417

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2904453

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