Leaving home /
Keillor, Garrison.
Leaving home / Garrison Keillor. - New York : Viking, 1987. - xxiii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
"All of these stories were performed, in slightly different form, on 'A Prairie home companion, ' a production of Minnesota Public Radio"--P. [vi]. "This first edition ... is limited to a printing of fifteen hundred copies"--Prelims. LC copy numbered: 23; signed in ink by Garrison Keillor; in slipcase. Source: Copyright deposit, Oct. 28, 1987.
Introduction : a letter from Copenhagen -- A trip to Grand Rapids -- A ten-dollar bill -- Easter -- Corinne -- A glass of Wendy -- The speeding ticket -- Seeds -- Chicken -- How the crab apple grew -- Truckstop -- Dale -- High rise -- Collection -- Life is good -- Lyle's roof -- Pontoon boat -- State fair -- David and Agnes, a romance -- The killer -- Eloise -- The royal family -- Homecoming -- Brethren -- Thanksgiving -- Darlene makes a move -- Christmas dinner -- Exiles -- New Year's -- Where did it go wrong? -- Post office -- Out in the cold -- Hawaii -- Hansel -- Du, du Liegst mir im Herzen -- Aprille -- Goodbye to the lake.
In this collection of stories about small-town life, Dale takes a step toward manhood and Darlene sets off for Minneapolis to begin a new life.
0670820121 (lim. ed.) 9780670820122 (lim. ed.) 067081976X : $18.95 9780670819768 0670820113 9780670820115
87040219
Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place)--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Humorous stories, American.
Minnesota--Fiction.
PS 3561 .E3755 / L43 1987
Leaving home / Garrison Keillor. - New York : Viking, 1987. - xxiii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
"All of these stories were performed, in slightly different form, on 'A Prairie home companion, ' a production of Minnesota Public Radio"--P. [vi]. "This first edition ... is limited to a printing of fifteen hundred copies"--Prelims. LC copy numbered: 23; signed in ink by Garrison Keillor; in slipcase. Source: Copyright deposit, Oct. 28, 1987.
Introduction : a letter from Copenhagen -- A trip to Grand Rapids -- A ten-dollar bill -- Easter -- Corinne -- A glass of Wendy -- The speeding ticket -- Seeds -- Chicken -- How the crab apple grew -- Truckstop -- Dale -- High rise -- Collection -- Life is good -- Lyle's roof -- Pontoon boat -- State fair -- David and Agnes, a romance -- The killer -- Eloise -- The royal family -- Homecoming -- Brethren -- Thanksgiving -- Darlene makes a move -- Christmas dinner -- Exiles -- New Year's -- Where did it go wrong? -- Post office -- Out in the cold -- Hawaii -- Hansel -- Du, du Liegst mir im Herzen -- Aprille -- Goodbye to the lake.
In this collection of stories about small-town life, Dale takes a step toward manhood and Darlene sets off for Minneapolis to begin a new life.
0670820121 (lim. ed.) 9780670820122 (lim. ed.) 067081976X : $18.95 9780670819768 0670820113 9780670820115
87040219
Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place)--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Humorous stories, American.
Minnesota--Fiction.
PS 3561 .E3755 / L43 1987