by Garrison Keillor · The Viking Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670849437
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«The Book of Guys» is a collection of humorous stories by Garrison Keillor, published by The Viking Press in hardcover (340 pages, in English).
Keillor portrays the American man of his time with humor and closeness: ordinary types caught between nostalgia for a heroic masculinity and the demands of modern life. The stories alternate mythological characters (Dionysus, Don Giovanni, Zeus) with anonymous antiheroes from the Midwest, always with irony and a touch of tenderness.
The subtitle 'Stories' appears on the cover. Published in 1993, it is the work of Garrison Keillor, author of 'Lake Wobegon Days' and known for his radio program.
For readers of literary humor and short stories interested in American masculinity and in Garrison Keillor's folksy irony.
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.
