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...many in the audience, the big draw of the event was the appearance of Garrison Keillor. And his performance did not fall short. Keillor read naturally, repeated sections as he saw fit, and, without being condescending, made sure the audience followed along. Ironically enough, however, it was a "product," Keillor's celebrity status and his new book, not pure appreciation of the spoken word that had to be "sold" to attract people to the event...
...LAKE WOBEGON DAYS, Keillor...
...town's first Norwegian is a Union Army deserter whose descendants, the Sons of Knute, hold a yearly contest, starting on Groundhog Day, where you bet on the day and hour a 1949 Ford will sink through the ice and into the lake. "Left to our own devices," writes Keillor, "we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes...
...from an ideal of Norman Rockwell hominess, Lake Wobegon reverberates with terror and finalities. Lonely Norwegians with whisky bottles lie down on their family graves in Our Prairie Home Cemetery to talk to the dead about the old country. Keillor's folk confront mainstream America with beer and trembling. They are still wagging their heads and clucking their tongues over Father Emil's summer replacement. Golfing Father Frank proclaims of his martini at a backyard party, "Dry. Mmmmm. What did you do? Just think about vermouth, for Christ's sake...
Radio Humorist Garrison Keillor's first novel gives fans something more lasting than air. The seven siblings of The House of Mitford...