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Title:Leaving Home (Lake Wobegon #2)
Author:Garrison Keillor
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 244 pages
Published:March 2nd 1998 by Not Avail (first published October 6th 1987)
Categories:Fiction. Humor. Short Stories. Literature. American. Contemporary. Writing. Essays

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Garrison Keillor is my favorite storyteller. He has an amazing gift of calming and soothing and forcing you to think and remember and contemplate and enjoy – all in the half stupor of contentment. Most of these stories don’t even have a tangible point. There’s no moral. There’s no lesson to be learned or underlying archetypal subplot defining a genre and exploding with controversy. They’re just stories about a small town in Minnesota and the people’s lives who live there. And part of that is the essence of what makes them so wonderful. The illustrations and allusions and quirky personality makes up 49% of it’s greatness – and their simplicity makes up another 49%. And the last two percent, is just pure Garrison Keillor magic.

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Original Title: Leaving Home
ISBN: 0571194184 (ISBN13: 9780571194186)
Edition Language: English URL http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/leaving-home/
Series: Lake Wobegon #2
Setting: Lake Wobegon, Minnesota(United States)
Literary Awards: Minnesota Book Award (1988)

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Garrison Keiller's take on rural life is a refreshing blend of modern sensibility and nostalgia. He pits the denizens of Lake Wobegon against all the vagaries of life that keep us wondering who we really have on our side. Whether maintaining a livelihood, managing a household, leading a congregation, or nursing a relationship, the Lake Wobegon way of doing things always seems to be a makeshift way. His tales are bright with humor and warm with empathy.

What a wonderful way to begin a year of reading. Something light and funny in Lake Wobegon. A true feel good read where all the women are strong.......

classic stories of lake woebegone, funny as all hell. i love prairie home companion so when i found this for free outside of the very cute jackson, nh library i scooped it up. very easy reading and perfect for an afternoon on a screened in porch in a small town.

Beautiful, funny, and heartwarming. I will be back to this small town escapism

Liberal-Minded Contraband @ Fort Knox, during Basic Training? I love Garrison, and even followed his example by traveling to Scandinavia in 1986. But heck, I was learning to kill Commies, after all, and practiced shooting at the Red-Star pop-up targets on the firing range. Fearing it would be taken away from me and getting into trouble, I tossed this book into a barrel, just before beginning my (4) months of Cavalry Scout (19-Delta) training, just to be safe. It was still Reagan's U.S. Army.

This is fun to read out loud, in my best Garrison Keillor voice -- not really, but I do read it out loud to my daughter and she invariably falls asleep. But, I love it and it makes me laugh. I do wonder, though, if you'd have to have lived in the Midwest to get all of the humor?

I am admittedly a huge fan of Garrison Keillor and his storytelling skills. This collection of Lake Wobegon stories, built around the theme of leaving the familiar behind to try something new, does what these stories always do; hold the carnival mirror up to nature, getting us to laugh at ourselves and believe in the good in the process.