“Keillor’s literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal delivery. It can slip from mood to mood so subtly and quickly you’re never quite sure where you are…. [His] writing has the silvery slip of running water, so graceful and easy it’s hard to believe it can carry so much that is jagged and unresolved. His integrity lies in his not smoothing away those rough edges in the swift current of his prose; they’re bruisingly, sometimes cuttingly there.” —The Village Voice
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- ISBN: 9781101572696
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- ISBN: 9781101572696
- File size: 467 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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February 27, 1989
The Wizard of Lake Woebegon here collects ``in one neat pile'' 10 poems and 57 prose pieces, ranging in length from less than a page to as many as 22, ``written at the time of Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people.'' Selected mostly from his contributions to the New Yorker , these short works by the Minnesota humorist ``who does comedy in slow motion'' vary in subject matter from porches, cold, Gettysburg, yard sales, sneezes, Woodlawn Cemetery and travel notes to the fate of the last cigarette smokers in the U.S., how to write 50-word postcards gracefully, the hardships of serving in the Indiana National Guard's public information battalion and ``The Meaning of Life,'' described as ``the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor.'' Taken singly, the pieces amuse, bemuse or arouse; in bulk, they stand up less well, because they are repetitive and not fully developed. -
March 31, 1990
``The Wizard of Lake Wobegon here collects `in one neat pile' 10 poems and 57 prose pieces, ranging in length from less than a page to as many as 22. . . . Taken singly, the pieces amuse, bemuse or arouse; in bulk, they stand up less well, because they are repetitive and not fully developed,'' judged PW. 250,000 first printing.
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