That time of year : a Minnesota life / Garrison Keillor.
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 Renée 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781951627683 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1951627687 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Arcade Publishing, [2020]
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Subject: | Keillor, Garrison. Prairie home companion (Radio program) Humorists, American > 20th century > Biography. Entertainers > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emmaus Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Emmaus Public Library | B KEILLOR (Text) | 36446002029398 | Adult Biography | Available | - |