by Garrison Keillor · Faber and Faber Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571146338
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«Lake Wobegon Days» is the humorous novel by Garrison Keillor, published by Faber and Faber Ltd in paperback (337 pages, in English).
The book recreates the history, landscapes and customs of Lake Wobegon, a fictional town in Minnesota. Through memories and anecdotes of its neighbors, Garrison Keillor portrays with humor and nostalgia the daily life of a small community in the American Midwest, among trades, celebrations and small miseries.
Lake Wobegon Days is the first title in the Lake Wobegon series, within contemporary American fiction.
For readers of literary humor and stories about rural America, and for book clubs.
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.
