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Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America explores the comic imagination that put Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, on the map along with Hannibal, Missouri, and Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This first full-length analysis of Keillor's humor draws on manuscripts and audiotapes in the archives at Minnesota Public Radio, as well as upon the wealth of poetry and prose published by Keillor since his student days at the University of Minnesota. In addition to tracing the evolution of Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologue, this enjoyable book examines the themes and comic techniques of Keillor's songs, poems, dramas, commercials, and audience-participation events that shine among the brightest highlights of his radio shows.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0878054731
ISBN13:9780878054732
Release Date:March 1991
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:258 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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Such a Complex Fella
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Here's a short quote from this book: "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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