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    Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon
    Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon
    Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon
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    Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon

    Written by Garrison Keillor

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    About this audiobook

    Gospel Birds is a collection of nine classic and very funny monologues from the early years of A Prairie Home Companion. In addition to the title story (about Irma and Ernie Lundeen's traveling flock of acrobatic, bible-reciting birds), contents include:Pastor Ingquist's Trip to OrlandoMammoth Concert Tickets#160;Bruno, the Fishing DogGospel BirdsMeeting Donny Hart at the Bus StopA Day at the Circus with MazumboThe Tollerud's Korean BabySylvester Krueger's DeskBabe Ruth visits Lake WobegonGospel Birds is Garrison Keillor at his very best-endearing insights, gentle humor and warm affection for the human foibles we all share.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 28, 1993
    ISBN9781598879599
    Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon
    Author

    Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.

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