Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America

by Judith Yaross Lee

Book Overview

Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America explores the comic imagination that put Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, on the map along with Hannibal, Missouri, and Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

This first full-length analysis of Keillor's humor draws on manuscripts and audiotapes in the archives at Minnesota Public Radio, as well as upon the wealth of poetry and prose published by Keillor since his student days at the University of Minnesota.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878054731
• ISBN13: 9780878054732
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Such a Complex Fella

Here's a short quote from this book: "The ... narrative overflows with familiar icons of childhood and small-town American life - daydreams and disappointments, abseball and Boy Scouts, lawn ornaments and storm windows, Main Street and Founder's Square. But Keillor works his local-color material so that it debunks the same sentimentality and nostalgia that it evokes. ... in the final analysis the narrator's praise for small-town America is about as trustworthy as the boy's booming baritone." Such a complex fella. Keillor left Lake Wobegone for a clear and understandable reason: he was stultified by the environment and the atmosphere where "artsy" types were viewed with deep suspicion and contempt. However, this was the ground he stood on, unlike so many others, and it became his lifelong meal ticket...