More News from Lake Wobegon [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Garrison Keillor (Author, Performer)

Book Description

Series: Lake Wobegon | Publication Date: April 9, 1990

Successor to the best-selling News from Lake Wobegon, this collection of Garrison Keillor monologues includes 16 stories, grouped by theme: Love, Faith, Hope, and Humor. All are from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

Contents:
Rotten Apples; O Death; The Wise Men; A Trip to Grand Rapids; Truckstop; Smokes; The Perils of Spring; Let Us Pray; Alaska; Uncle Al's Gift; Skinny Dip; Homecoming; Pontoon Boat; Author; Freedom of the Press; Vicks

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The tales...most often requested by Keillor's fans...you can almost hear a pin drop as he tells them." -- The Express, Books to Go 1990, Robert K. Hayes --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

From the Back Cover

"These days I live in big foreign cities - New York and Copenhagen - but I think about America every day and imagine a town, an avenue of old frame houses, a boulevard of tall trees, a June night, lawn sprinklers swishing across the grass and popping flower bushes by the porch. A dog on the porch. Lights behind the curtains. Rock 'n' roll in an upstairs bedroom. Charcoal smoke in the air, a whiff of burgers. A gang of kids skidding around on gravel, giggling. A screen door slaps and a dad marches out to the garage. Yard after yard, block after block, every sight and sound and smell utterly familiar.

"This is the American neighborhood of childhood comfort and fantasy, of teenage ambition, and of the tenderness and misery and splendor and comedy of marriage. Movies and novels of brutality and greed may sell a zillion copies, but they're irrelevant to the life of this avenue, which is based of faith, hope, love and humor." -Garrison Keillor, 1989 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: HighBridge Company; Original radio broadcast; 5 hours on 4 CDs edition (April 9, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942110374
• ISBN-13: 978-0942110371
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #370,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #81 in Books > Books on CD > Radio Shows

More About the Author

Garrison Keillor is the bestselling author of Lake Wobegon Days, Happy To Be Here, Leaving Home, We Are Still Married, Radio Romance, The Book of Guys and Wobegon Boy (available in Penguin Audiobook). He is the host of A Prairie Home Companion on American public radio and a contributor to Time magazine. He lives in Wisconsin and New York City.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

83 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Garrison Keillor's best story compilation ever, January 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: More News from Lake Wobegon (Audio CD)

This CD compilation 16 of the finest stories in the history of the famed, long-running radio show "A Prarie Home Companion". The stories come under four headings: "Faith", "Hope", "Love", and "Humor". Some of the best stories from this package include "Smokes", a brilliant story of a father's attempt at quitting smoking out of pure guilt. "Let us Pray" tells the story of Pastor Inquvist and the stir up he causes among his congregation. "A Trip to Grand Rapids" is about a weekend getaway gone horribly wrong. "Truckstop" is the painfully hilarious account of the events both before and after Florian Krebsbach accidentally leaves his wife Myrtle at a truckstop. "Homecoming" is the story of Karl Krebsbach and his nightmarish experience on the day of his daughter's High School homecoming. These and many other brilliant stories make an amazing array of the Lake Wobegon experience.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent CD from Lake Wobegon, October 18, 1998

By 

D. Elvin (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Humor: Stories from the Collection More News from Lake Wobegon (Audio CD)

This CD had me laughing out loud especially the story "Homecoming" which involves the confrontation between the Lake Wobegon homecoming parade (headed by a tank - of course) and a truck with a different type of tank - a septic one. In terms of big comic set pieces, I don't think GK has bettered this one (not even the classic "Living Flag")

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank goodness there's More News from Lake Wobegon!, June 1, 2000

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Beverly Sharon Bryant (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More News from Lake Wobegon (Audio Cassette)

These tapes are an absolute must for anyone who enjoys heartwarming, humorous stories. I've listened to them many times and have never tired of them. All the stories are memorable, but one in particular stands out in my mind. A young man overhears his father telling someone that his son is a "pretty good boy." The son thinks to himself that this was the closest his father ever came to saying, "I love you," and it was close enough for him.

Garrison Keillor's voice is very enchanting. He even sings a little on the tapes. For a fun, old-fashioned evening I suggest friends and family gather round with a plate of oatmeal cookies and a mug of hot chocolate and listen to More News from Lake Wobegon.