{"product_id":"9781956763171-that-time-of-year-a-minnesota-life","title":"Keillor Garrison - That Time Of Year A Minnesota Life - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: With the warmth and humor we've come to know the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and seeing three good friends die young turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life including mistakes regrets and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty - two years 1,557 shows and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p. m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Ren e Fleming and once sang two songs to the U. S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy gave the news from his hometown Lake Wobegon and met Somali cabdrivers who d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life and on top of that I married well. That's the secret work and love. And I chose the right ancestors impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers good workers. I m heading for eighty and I still get up to write before dawn every day. The paperback edition has been revised with a new preface by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: That Time Of Year A Minnesota Life\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Keillor Garrison\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Arcade\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781956763171\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 384 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 3\/7\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Biography: Arts \u0026amp; Entertainment","brand":"Keillor Garrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626877133105,"sku":"IN-G-9781956763171","price":17.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781956763171.jpg?v=1724954059","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781956763171-that-time-of-year-a-minnesota-life","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}