Word: keillors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor Viking Penguin...
...possible, then, the Garrison Keillor's newest volume of short stories, entitled The Book of Guys(easy to understand, no big words), is actually a brilliant work of metabuffoonery, a calculated and strategic maneuver meant to keep the critics guessing? One would like to think so. Why else would Keillor, wry humorist and folksy radio personality, populate his stories with Neanderthals? Many of Keillor's narrators and protagonists, perplexed by the emotional machinations of modern women, can only shrug their shoulders, reach for another beer and perhaps scratch themselves. One story, written in verse, has the narrator muse...
Besides such boneheaded lyricism, Keillor's men are capable only of the primal and sweaty masculine emotions: jealous violence and libidinous desire. This vision of New Age Man jars: a proudly belching bass fisherman, at peace with his clueless self...
International Falls. Six foot snow drifts and daily high temperatures of 10 below. Lutheranism. The worst baseball park this side of Seattle's Kingdome. Maybe Lake Wobegone and Garrison Keillor...
...with the eventual aim of teaching women's and Asian- American studies at the university level. Her story sounds like every parent's dream come true, but it is hardly unique. Around the country, young people of Asian descent seem to embody the tongue-in-cheek demographics of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, where "all the children are above average." Working-world Asians, meanwhile, have produced a veritable galaxy of stellar performers in the U.S., from the arts and sciences to business and finance. Like immigrating Jews of earlier generations, they have parlayed cultural emphases on education and hard work...