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In Search of Lake Wobegon Garrison Keillor

In Search of Lake Wobegon By Garrison Keillor

In Search of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor

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This collection of photographs combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of Lake Wobegon - a place where the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average - which, according to its creator, is somewhere in central Minnesota.

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In Search of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor

Twenty-five years ago I invented a small town and started telling stories about it on the radio and ever since then, people have asked me if it's a real town, and if it is, then where is it?I used to tell them that it's fiction, but they were disappointed. People want stories to be true. So I started telling people that the town is in central Minnesota, near Stearns Country, up around Holdingford, not far from St. Rosa and Albany and Freeport, which is sort of the truth, I guess.GARRISON KEILLOR

About Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor, 'America's tallest radio humorist', was born in 1942 in a small town in Minnesota, into a family of Scottish fundamental protestants. His father was a railroad clerk and he was the third of six children. As a child, radio and television were discouraged, but the family were expert at entertaining themselves with evenings of storytelling.In 1966 Garrison Keillor graduated from the University of Minnesota, where he earned his tuition working at the campus radio station. His ambition though was to write - three years later the big breakthrough came when he sold a story to the New Yorker. He immediately gave up his job at the radio station to concentrate exclusively on writing but, ironically, it was an assignment from the New Yorker in 1974, which tempted him back to the radio.Writing about the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville brought back childhood memories of the warmth and spontaneity of the medium, and the result of this was to be Keil

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GOR013491257
9780571210541
0571210546
In Search of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Used - Like New
Hardback
Faber & Faber
20011105
128
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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