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S'està carregant… That Time of Year: A Minnesota Lifede Garrison Keillor
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I’ve read most of GK’s books, and I think this is the best. It’s honest, funny, and settles in my mind once and for all who he is. And I like who he is. He’s an important writer in our time, and his brush with MeToo won’t change that. One can take down his picture at the U, cancel his wonderful “Writers Almanac,” and otherwise try to pretend he hasn’t been on this earth for nearly eight decades, but like most great yet flawed writers, his works live on and will continue to live on long after he’s gone. Thank you, GK, for this book and for your explanation. Now, go fish somewhere. ( ) THAT TIME OF YEAR was a Christmas gift to myself, because I was a Prairie Home Companion listener for over thirty years, since it was introduced to me by a Minnesotan friend (from Mankato). Alternately hilarious and deeply moving, it had me chuckling and laughing out loud as I read it in bed each night for the past week,annoying my wife to no end, as she was trying to read her own book. Besides the usual Lake Wobegone weird tales and trademark Keillor humor, songs and limericks, we also learn much about the author's childhood, filled with loving aunts, and how he stumbled into radio, his workaholic habits and close shaves with strokes, heart problems and brain seizures, which finally forced him into a reluctant retirement at 74. He also tells of his three marriages and all the dear friends and family he has outlived, and even offers an explanation about how he was "hung out to dry" via unfair accusations made during the #metoo movement, causing Public Radio to sever ties with him, ending one of my favorite daily five-minute shows, "The Writer's Almanac." He tries not to be bitter about this, but it was obviously a bitter pill. Bottom line: I LOVED THIS BOOK. It is classic Garrison Keillor, pulling no punches, 78 and at the top of his game. We're almost the same age. Let's hear it for the old guys. My very highest recommendation. - Tim Bazzett, author of the REED CITY BOY memoir trilogy Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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 years, 750 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 Renee Fleming and once sang two songs to the US 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.". No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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