Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1535464 in Books
• Published on: 1990-03-28
• Released on: 1990-03-28
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .95" h x 5.36" w x 7.82" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From Publishers Weekly
"The Wizard of Lake Wobegon here collects 'in one neat pile' 10 poems and 57 prose pieces, ranging in length from less than a page to as many as 22. . . . Taken singly, the pieces amuse, bemuse or arouse; in bulk, they stand up less well, because they are repetitive and not fully developed," judged PW. 250,000 first printing.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Devoted friends of Lake Wobegon residents will surely welcome this opportunity to be filled in on what some of the gang has been up to and also to learn what Keillor himself has been doing and thinking since he closed down the Prairie Home Companion show in 1987. "I've been on the job and not sunning myself in Denmark," he tells us. And this new collection of 70 or so essays, stories, letters, and poems would seem to bear that out. They follow pretty closely the original Keillor recipe: a little shrewd observation, a slice of nostalgia, a dash of wit, laughter to taste, and a sprinkle of malice for piquancy. His topics are various--too various to particularize. Keillor is at his best, or his distinctive qualities have their freest scope, when he adds a touch of personal reminiscence to his themes. For discriminating palates.
- A. J. Anderson, G.S.L.I.S., Simmons Coll., Boston
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
"Prairie Home Companion" fans, Garrison Keillor is alive and well, with humor intact. The wry Minnesotan, transplanted to the land of subways and skyscrapers, is still dishing up his peculiar brand of warmth and wit. This new collection contains tales of love fumbled and recovered, satiric social comment, and letters on marriage and fatherhood.