A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon's favorite son and contemporary America's favorite humorist.
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This review is from: Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America (Studies in Popular Culture) (Paperback)
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"The ... narrative overflows with familiar icons of childhood and small-town American life - daydreams and disappointments, abseball and Boy Scouts, lawn ornaments and storm windows, Main Street and Founder's Square. But Keillor works his local-color material so that it debunks the same sentimentality and nostalgia that it evokes. ... in the final analysis the narrator's praise for small-town America is about as trustworthy as the boy's booming baritone." Such a complex fella. Keillor left Lake Wobegone for a clear and understandable reason: he was stultified by the environment and the atmosphere where "artsy" types were viewed with deep suspicion and contempt. However, this was the ground he stood on, unlike so many others, and it became his lifelong meal ticket...
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friendly neighbor, shy person, professional announcer, farewell performance, biscuit spots, little town that time forgot, regular national broadcasts, first live broadcast, mock autobiography, literary comedians, radio monologues, morning version, comic poses, literary comedy, rural innocence, visual humor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Wobegon, Prairie Home Companion, New Yorker, Leaving Home, Barbara Ann, Mark Twain, Matter of Minnesota, The Slim Graves Show, Forget Thee, The Short Stories, Chatterbox Cafe, Jack's Auto Repair, The News, Cracker-Barrel Philosopher, Johnny Tollefson, Brooklyn Park, Roger Hedlund, Gospel Birds, Powdermilk Biscuit, Minnesota Public Radio, World Theater, Dog Days of August, The Tip Top Club, American Radio Company of the Air, Jack Schmidt Browse Sample Pages:
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