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That Time Of Year: A Minnesota Life - 9781956763171
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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Ren?e Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who?d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, ?I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That?s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I?m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.? The paperback edition has a new preface by the author.
| Author: Garrison Keillor |
| Publisher: Arcade |
| Publication Date: Mar 07, 2023 |
| Number of Pages: 384 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1956763171 |
| ISBN-13: 9781956763171 |
That Time Of Year: A Minnesota Life - 9781956763171
$19.99
$18.16
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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Ren?e Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who?d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, ?I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That?s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I?m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.? The paperback edition has a new preface by the author.
| Author: Garrison Keillor |
| Publisher: Arcade |
| Publication Date: Mar 07, 2023 |
| Number of Pages: 384 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1956763171 |
| ISBN-13: 9781956763171 |
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