Garrison Keillor was born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7, , in Anoka, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was one of six children in the family. Keillor graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in English in There he began his broadcasting career on the student-operated radio station, named Radio K. The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form—replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally’s pontoon bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Woebegon Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group USA pp. ISBN Summary In this novel, Keillor's first Wobegon fiction since Lake Wobegon Summer was published in , we meet Evelyn, a good church-going Lutheran, a devoted mother, a serious quilter. Only after she dies in her sleep as she always wished she would, do we find out that .
A Grammy and Peabody winner, Garrison Keillor is the author of more than 15 books and is the creator, host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion and The Wri. Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon is a novel by Garrison Keillor, a humorous fictional account of life in the fictitious heartland town of Lake Wobegon, bltadwin.ru was first published in hardcover by Viking Press in September Lake Wobegon is one of the habitats of the radio show Prairie Home Companion. Garrison Keillor makes his long- awaited return to Lake Wobegon with this New York Times bestseller The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form-replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly.
Pontoon — The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form—replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally’s pontoon boat. Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks. Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for forty years. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York. The life and loves of a spirited woman cast a beguiling shadow over the good citizens of Lake Wobegon in Keillor’s warmhearted latest comic romp. It opens with a killer sentence (“Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that”) and follows it with a gem-like introductory paragraph summarizing Evelyn Peterson’s vigorous life and introduction to the afterlife.
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