We Are Still Married
Prairie Home Companion fans, Garrison Keillor is alive and well, with humor intact. The wry Minnesotan, transplanted to the land of subways and skyscrapers, is still dishing up his peculiar brand of warmth and wit. This new collection contains tales of love fumbled and recovered, satiric social...
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Prairie Home Companion fans, Garrison Keillor is alive and well, with humor intact. The wry Minnesotan, transplanted to the land of subways and skyscrapers, is still dishing up his peculiar brand of warmth and wit. This new collection contains tales of love fumbled and recovered, satiric social comment, and letters on marriage and fatherhood.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670826476 (0670826472)
Publish date: March 15th 1989
Publisher: Viking Books
Pages no: 330
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
American,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Short Stories,
American Novels
In the 1980s, I’d heard Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion on the radio (and loved it) and read his novels, but hadn’t read his essay work until I bought We Are Still Married in 1990. It’s one of the handful of books that have traveled with me the decades since, and I never really get tired of reading...
I'm a huge Keillor fan. His essays are insightful and jammed with an elegant, graceful humor, and his more creative efforts are at the very least interesting. At their best, they're mind expanding.For example, in We Are Still Married, he forgoes the usual author's photo on the back sleeve, preferrin...