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Garrison Keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability--both in print and in performance--to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor, tenderness, and grace. This exclusive recording of Garrison Keillor reading a carefully edited abridgement of the book and includes a few segments taken from live performances recorded during a fundraising tour for public radio stations in 1985.… (mais)
Keillor's monologues, presented here as short stories, remind me of the small town I grew up in. They are about a place and time that was not better than now, and not necessarily worse, but memorable. ( )
Perhaps if I had read this book 30 years ago, or if I knew anything about small town America I may have enjoyed it more. It is well written, though not particularly well proof read in the version I read. The format wasn't brilliant, but then book publishing has moved on. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Dogs don't lie, and why should I? Strangers come, they growl and bark. They know their loved ones in the dark. Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To Margaret, my love
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota,* lies on the shore against Adams Hill, looking east across the blue-green water to the dark woods.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
He starts out on the short walk to the house where people love him and will be happy to see his face.
Garrison Keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability--both in print and in performance--to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor, tenderness, and grace. This exclusive recording of Garrison Keillor reading a carefully edited abridgement of the book and includes a few segments taken from live performances recorded during a fundraising tour for public radio stations in 1985.