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    Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon
    Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon
    Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon
    Audiobook4 hours

    Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon

    Written by Garrison Keillor

    Narrated by Garrison Keillor

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    About this audiobook

    The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St. Paul home. Others were recorded on the road in Dublin, Pasadena, Grand Forks, and other exotic places.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateAug 25, 2003
    ISBN9781598879629
    Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon
    Author

    Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.

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    • 5/5
      Fans of Garrison Keillor will enjoy this eclectic collection of mirth and music. No one tells a story quite like Keillor, and you will be highly entertained with tales from the Norwegian bachelor farmers, the Lutheran ministers, and the charismatic Lutheran church, just to mention a few. With a generous sprinkling of songs thrown in, this is one collection you'll listen to time and again.
    • 4/5
      Four hours on four CDs. These are excerpts from Keillor's live shows, the portions where he tells stories from Lake Wobegon, his hometown, "where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above average." He has an extraordinarily mellifluous voice, the anecdotes are sometimes touching and usually amusing, and all in all it was a very pleasant way to pass the drive to and from work for a couple of weeks.
    • 5/5
      This is a recording of the Prairie Home Companion basically. It is a collection of excerpted News From Lake Wobegon pieces complete with laughing audience noises. I love the Prairie Home Companion and have a special fondness for Lake Wobegon pieces. I download them weekly on the iTunes podcast section, but I never knew that they had been packaged as books. It's delightful, though devoted Prairie Home Companion listeners will recognize what they're listening to as a radio rerun. I love it all the same though.
    • 4/5
      Home on the Prairie is a little more contemplative than some of Keillor's Lake Wobegon collections, but it's still wonderful, and it does still have its chuckle moments. Although you won't find anything here quite as hilarious as The Flying Elvises, there's still no better company during a short road trip or a long commute.