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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780670063567
ISBN: 0670063568
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: September 11, 2007
Publisher: Viking Adult
Sales Rank: 24213
Studio: Viking Adult
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Product Description:
A fresh and funny Lake Wobegon novel about a woman with a secret life
In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend Brent aboard Wally's pontoon boat, presided over by her minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America, their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus. And Barbara Peterson, whose mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at the Romeo Motel.
An the then there is Raoul of the cigars and tinted shades and rainbow sportscoat and his long phone message ("Hey, Precious") after the angel of death has already come and gone.
All is in readiness for the wedding--the giant shrimp shish kebabs, the French champagne, the wheels of imported cheese, the pate with whole peppercorns, the hot-air balloon, the flying Elvis, the pontoon boat, and the giant duck decoys--and then something else happens.
It is Lake Wobegon as you've imagined it--good loving people who drive each other slightly crazy.
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Garrison Keillor hits several spots with this book. It is loaded with wonderful human insights, the plight of uncommonly common folks, great humor, an inreasingly intricate plot, and one of the most side-splitting conclusions I have ever read. Don't peak at the last chapter (or Epilogue). Sit back and enjoy a master writer. It's over all too fast, but has a delightful conclusion to all the confllicts and challenges of Lake Wobegone. PEB
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When I saw a new Garrison Kiellor novel on the shelves I lunged for it in case someone else had spied it! I anxiously awaited the quirky characters of Lake Woebegone, brought to life in his inimitable style. But what I found were quirky characters that I couldn't get connected to at all. All the elements were there but it never connected for me. I left the ending unread. And I'm not usually doing that.
Sorry, Garrison, this one didn't reach me. I will still be interested in the ... Read More
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One of Garrison's best! This novel would make a great movie. Funny and quite in the Lake Wobegon tradition
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I love Lake Wobegon. And Garrison Keillor is a master of the tragi-comic. His great strength is to have little events unfold, in a seemingly tranquil setting and then build them up to a grand finale of organized chaos. The tranquil setting certainly exists in Pontoon but the little events / grand finale scaling is off. To be fair, the story of full of colorful characters and all their escapades, and therefore not entirely devoid of charm. Bottom line: Pontoon is not Keillor at his best.
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Classic Keillor--humor always framed in gentle humanity; insightful but never disrespectful--a real pleasure to read. There are times I laughed out loud, and others, when I was introspective of his characters' frailities and saw my own. Thank you, Mr. Keillor, for moving Hannibal north to Minnesota. Joy Brewer
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