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Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears-a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.".… (mais)
I’ve been a big fan of Garrison Keillor for years. I’ve been to three of his live shows, and I read his newsletter each day. I’ve read most of his books, and although many are about his fictional Lake Wobegon, this one is the one that merges fiction and nonfiction the most. He is a character in the book, and, in fact, this book is a part of the story. Presumably, it wouldn’t have existed had someone not retrieved the manuscript from the trash and passed it back to him. Apparently, he felt it was too much of a mish-mash to present to a publisher. And it is that. A mish-mash. I’m guessing that readers who are not Keillor fans probably would bail on this book a short way into it. Those of us who accepted his mish-mashness decades ago, will stay with it to the end. It’s got the usual funny, clever, and head shaking characters as well as the not to be believed situations he puts them it. In this book, they’ve lost their senses because of the consumption of tainted Norwegian cheese. The book is very short, just under 200 pages, so if the reader finds him/her-self (can’t bring myself to use a plural pronoun to refer to a singular antecedent) getting frustrated with Keillor’s ramblings, be assured it won’t last long. And the writing and humor are worth sticking with the book. ( )
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Well, it has been a quiet year in Lake Wobegon except for the heat wave in February and then that weird epidemic of what's called "episodic loss of inhibition" and sensible Germans and Norwegians pouring out inappropriate feelings, spilling crazy secrets, hallucinating about some conspiracy or other, acting out -- Darlene baring her breasts at the Chatterbox Cafe -- Dorothy stopped her in time, but still -- our beloved Darlene, the last of the old-time waitresses who called their clients "Sweetheart", at 55 opening her blouse! -- and Pastor Liz making a fool of herself in a Sunday sermon.
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Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears-a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.".
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