Lake Wobegon Days is a novel by
Garrison KeillorGary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality...
, first published in
hardcoverA hardcover, hardback or hardbound is a book bound with rigid protective covers...
by
VikingViking Press is an American publishing company currently owned by Penguin Books. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1931 by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
in 1985. Based on material from his radio show
A Prairie Home CompanionA Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs two hours on Saturdays from 6 to 8 p.m Eastern Time, and 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken...
, the book brought Keillor's work to a much wider audience and achieved international success. Like some of Keillor's other books, it is unusual in that it could be said that the audiobook preceded the publication in written form.
The work is a humorous account of life in fictitious
Lake WobegonLake Wobegon is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor. Keillor reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast live every Saturday afternoon over Minnesota Public Radio and public radio...
,
MinnesotaMinnesota is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.2 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the...
, a
heartland- Titled expressive works :Moving-image works* Heartland , a 1994 Australian television series starring Cate Blanchett* Heartland with John Kasich a.k.a...
small town.
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Lake Wobegon Days is a novel by
Garrison KeillorGary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality...
, first published in
hardcoverA hardcover, hardback or hardbound is a book bound with rigid protective covers...
by
VikingViking Press is an American publishing company currently owned by Penguin Books. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1931 by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
in 1985. Based on material from his radio show
A Prairie Home CompanionA Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs two hours on Saturdays from 6 to 8 p.m Eastern Time, and 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken...
, the book brought Keillor's work to a much wider audience and achieved international success. Like some of Keillor's other books, it is unusual in that it could be said that the audiobook preceded the publication in written form.
The work is a humorous account of life in fictitious
Lake WobegonLake Wobegon is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor. Keillor reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast live every Saturday afternoon over Minnesota Public Radio and public radio...
,
MinnesotaMinnesota is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.2 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the...
, a
heartland- Titled expressive works :Moving-image works* Heartland , a 1994 Australian television series starring Cate Blanchett* Heartland with John Kasich a.k.a...
small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and style of a history of the town and later ones chronicle the lives, concerns, and activities of its inhabitants, with intergenerational tensions and relationships forming a major theme. Most of the latter material was originally delivered on radio in the form of monologues. Due to the nature of the original material, the second half of the novel has many recurring characters but little in the way of plot, resembling an incompletely integrated group of short stories.
External links
- Garrison Keillor discusses Lake Wobegon Days on the BBC World Book Club
World Book Club is a radio programme on the BBC World Service. Each edition of the programme, which is broadcast on the first Saturday of the month with repeats into the following Monday, features a famous author discussing one of his or her books, often the most well-known one, with the public...