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    Never Better
    Never Better
    Never Better
    Audiobook2 hours

    Never Better

    Written by Garrison Keillor

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    quot;It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town....quot; Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling. During live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor takes us to quot;the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve,quot; where quot;the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.quot; These expertly crafted tales touch the heart and tickle the funnybone. Warm, poignant, often hilarious, each is a classic of live storytelling, full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and (more often than not) surprising insights into family, community, love, faith, and hope.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 2, 2007
    ISBN9781598879810
    Never Better
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    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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    • 4/5
      Quite an interesting style of humor and underlying seriousness, this was a nice collection of stories -- some better than others. At two discs, it was a nice single-session listen.
    • 5/5
      Delicious. I "read" this book on audio CD in my car, and I have to say no one can improve my mood quicker or more effectively than Garrison Keillor. Anyone who lives in a small town can recognize Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above-average. Keillor, like Christopher Guest, has a real gift for commentary that's razor-sharp but never malicious. If he weren't so obviously fond of these characters, his comedy would be biting. As it is, it's a fond poke in the ribs. Just when you think you want to live in Lake Wobegon, you realize that you already do.