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Lake Wobegon Days (Faber Classics)

Lake Wobegon Days (Faber Classics)

Name: Lake Wobegon Days (Faber Classics)
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Garrison Keillor
ISBN: 9780571200481

Garrison Keillor

05/04/1999
Faber & Faber

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Couverture de Lake Wobegon Days (Faber Classics) par Garrison Keillor

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Garrison Keillor's fictional Midwestern town, Lake Wobegon, has long since passed into literary legend. Lake Wobegon Days, his first unforgettable portrait of life in the American small-town named after an Indian word meaning 'Here we are!' or 'We sat all day in the rain waiting for you', is a modern classic of warmth, humour and tenderness which introduces the reader to 'a cast of characters to rival Mark Twain' [Daily Mail]. Biographie de l'auteur 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