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The Keillor Reader

Garrison Keillor

2014400 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2014
first published
  • 2014719 pages · ENGISBN 9781410470430
  • 2015Penguin Books · 400 pagesISBN 9780143127185
  • Viking BooksISBN 9780670020584

The news from Lake Wobegon. Bus children ; Growing up with the Flambeaus ; My cousin Kate ; June ; Gospel birds ; Pontoon boat ; What have we learned so far? ; Chickens ; The death of Byron ; Truckstop ; Faith -- Iconic pajamas. Henry ; Little house on the desert ; Billy the Kid ; Lonesome Shorty ; The Babe ; 1951 ; Little Becky ; Casey at the bat ; Marooned ; Mother's day -- Guys I have known. Earl Grey ; Don Giovanni ; Taking a meeting with Mr. Roast Beef ; Your book saved my life, mister ; Zeus the Lutheran ; Al Denny ; Jimmy seeks his fortune in Fairbanks ; At The New Yorker: my own memoir ; Snowman -- Life's little day. Rules of orchestra ; Five columns ; A speech to the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner ; Chet ; Mark ; What a luxury ; My life in prison ; Drowning 1954 ; College days ; My stroke (I'm over it) ; Home ; Anglicans ; The owl and the pussycat ; Cheerfulness.

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How it reads

ComplexityLayered

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Reading situationBedtime
ThemesFamily
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