That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life Garrison Keillor Arcade Publishing

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With the warmth and humour we\'ve come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. 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 Renee 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.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.\' Σελίδες: 384, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

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