|
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Lake Wobegon Novels) Posters
Photos Art
Search for Posters Art Prints, photos and get
results from all the many categories from Amazon including
books, videos, dvds, toys, video games, and more.
|
|
|
Posters Art
Prints Photos collectables |
|
|
|
|
|
|
If for some reason you can't find what the
poster or art print your looking for try using the search boxes
below
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Rating:  -
One of Garrison's best! This novel would make a great movie. Funny and quite in the Lake Wobegon tradition
Rating:  -
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.
Rating: -
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
Rating:  -
Lake Wobegon has three events scheduled on a Saturday afternoon: Evelyn wants her ashes interred in her bowling ball and her grandson decides to paraglide them into place; no one remembers the invitations to a "commitment ceremony" with a hot air balloon, oversized decoys and a pontoon boat; and 24 visiting Danish Lutheran ministers do penance with a trip to the Midwest. All week the details pile up, disintegrate, regroup; a lover (and Elvis) appear as the champagne and shrimp chill. This shaggy dog story (as in Bruno the fishing dog) ends in the waters, reeds and briars. This is Keillor's funniest effort in some time and the dénouement left me laughing out loud. It's good to have the recent sentimentality removed.
Rating: -
I am a Garrison Keillor fan. I also love Lake Wobegon. This new novel does not disappoint, and we meet old friends, and some new ones. A nice way to spend a rainy afternoon escaping to Minnesota.
|
