Wlt A Radio Romance (Paperback)
| Author: Garrison Keillor |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0140103805
ISBN-13: 9780140103809
Sku: 30014849
Publish Date: 11/1/1992
Pages:
416
Age Range:
22 to UP
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Studio B was the snakebite studio at WLT, the tomb of the radio mummy, and bad things happened to people who went in there. (from the first line)
| An intimate look into the lives of the quirky staff of WLT--a friendly neighborhood radio station founded by floundering Minneapolis restaurant magnates--weaves together real-life trauma with radio-life drama. Reprint. *Author: Keillor, Garrison *Subtitle: A Radio Romance *Publication Date: 1992/11/01 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 1.25 *Width: 5.00 *Height: 7.75 |
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An intimate look into the lives of the quirky staff of WLT--a friendly neighborhood radio station founded by floundering Minneapolis restaurant magnates--weaves together real-life trauma with radio-life drama. Reprint. |
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Eccentric characters, tangled romances, and down-home common sense abound in this novel about a radio station in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Eccentric characters, tangled romances, and down-home common sense abound in this novel about a radio station in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Author Bio
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward (later Garrison) Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, into a family that adhered to a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Plymouth Brethren--and had a childhood he describes as "very happy." He attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his B. A. in 1966, and did graduate work from 1966 to 1968. In 1965, Keillor married Mary C. Guntzel. They had a son, Jason; they were divorced in 1976. A devotee of the Grand Ole Opry, Keillor began hosting "A Prairie Home Companion" on Minnesota Public Radio, and soon the show went national. He was greatly influenced by relatives who gave "long, meandering talks" at family gatherings. As his success grew, and the books inspired by his show lingered on the bestseller lists, Keillor grew more and more ambivalent about celebrity and losing touch with his Midwestern roots. He detested the onslaught of shopping malls and encroaching urbanization of his hometown. He shocked his following in 1984 when he closed "A Prairie Home Companion." He moved to Denmark in 1987 with his second wife, but eventually returned to the U.S. (until 1992 he was a staff writer at The New Yorker), where after another divorce he married wife number three, a violinist.
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"Keillor has assembled a cast of quirky, colourful characters to tell his often funny story....To them, the illusionary world of radio is an escape, a universe in which their lives are bounded only by the limits of their off-the-wall imaginations, strange talents, and often peculiar ideas of entertainment. The result is 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter' meets 'Broadway Danny Rose' as depicted by Norman Rockwell. It's a fun-filled, nostalgic story of Bible thumpers, saucy aspiring starlets, wacky singing acts, soap opera writers, and fortune-hungry entrepreneurs." - Dennis Kucherawy October 1991 Nation
"Formally, [this book] reaches considerably beyond any of Keillor's earlier successes, which all conveyed the bittersweet and, by turn, biting charm of his radio act. It is Keillor's first true novel, and a very good one....Garrison Keillor's mythical America, unlike the faded and inoffensive Midwest of Sandburg, is dreamed with an unblinking eye. His characters are idiosyncratic. They are culled from who knows where--from our collective past, certainly, but also from the demotic oral tradition of a rich and very real community that is gone and now exists only in recollection." - Charles Naylor 12/23/1991
"Keillor has assembled a cast of quirky, colourful characters to tell his often funny story....To them, the illusionary world of radio is an escape, a universe in which their lives are bounded only by the limits of their off-the-wall imaginations, strange talents, and often peculiar ideas of entertainment. The result is 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter' meets 'Broadway Danny Rose' as depicted by Norman Rockwell. It's a fun-filled, nostalgic story of Bible thumpers, saucy aspiring starlets, wacky singing acts, soap opera writers, and fortune-hungry entrepreneurs." - Dennis Kucherawy October 1991 Nation
"Formally, [this book] reaches considerably beyond any of Keillor's earlier successes, which all conveyed the bittersweet and, by turn, biting charm of his radio act. It is Keillor's first true novel, and a very good one....Garrison Keillor's mythical America, unlike the faded and inoffensive Midwest of Sandburg, is dreamed with an unblinking eye. His characters are idiosyncratic. They are culled from who knows where--from our collective past, certainly, but also from the demotic oral tradition of a rich and very real community that is gone and now exists only in recollection." - Charles Naylor 12/23/1991
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