Garrison Keillor

Boom Town

A Lake Wobegon Novel. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 248 Seiten
ISBN 1733074554
EAN 9781733074551
Veröffentlicht April 2022
Verlag/Hersteller Tenacious Woman, LLC
28,50 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

The chronicle of another chapter in the life and times of the residents of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millenial entrepreneurship, meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates.

Portrait

Garrison Keillor wrote Boom Town during the pandemic lockdown in New York, reading drafts of it to his wife, Jenny, sitting across the room. He did parts of the book in monologues for audiences in Boston, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Virginia, along with the story of how, in the eighth grade, his shop teacher Orville Buehler, worried about the boy's carelessness with the power saw, sent him up to LaVona Person's speech class, thus changing his life. Keillor says, "For many people, the key to success is discipline and education, but for me, it was ineptitude with power tools." His twice-weekly columns appear on Substack (garrisonkeillor.substack.com).