by Garrison Keillor · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571152407
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«Leaving Home» is Garrison Keillor's collection of short stories, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The book brings together stories set in Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor's fictional town, portraying with humour and nostalgia the lives of its inhabitants: family, local customs and everyday tales of rural America. The ironic, intimate narration conveys the difficulty of leaving home behind and the changes of time.
Second instalment of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon series. Winner of the Minnesota Book Award in 1988. This edition is from 1989.
For readers who enjoy short, slice-of-life and humorous stories, and for followers of the Lake Wobegon narrative universe.
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.
