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    News from Lake Wobegon: Summer
    News from Lake Wobegon: Summer
    News from Lake Wobegon: Summer
    Audiobook57 minutes

    News from Lake Wobegon: Summer

    Written by Garrison Keillor

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    About this audiobook

    Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the summer season.Includes: "The Living Flag," "The Tollefson Boy Goes to College," and "Tomato Butt."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 18, 1997
    ISBN9781598879865
    News from Lake Wobegon: Summer
    Author

    Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.

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