Product Description
In a December 1990 live broadcast from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut, Keillor and company--Roy Blount, Jr., the Gregg Smith Quartet, and Pamela Warrick-Smith--celebrate the life and work of the great American author.


About the Author
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 35 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

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Audio Book Box.

Taken from sp4home's audio bookbox.

This wasn't as exciting as I had expected. Yes, we did get to hear some snippets of Mark Twain's humorous writings, but they didn't package it as interestingly as they could have. Maybe it was Garrison Kaillor's voice, he sounded kind of boring even when telling something funny and he sounded disinterested when he described something that was interesting to him. The fact that music doesn't sound very good on my cheap cassette player may have contributed to it as well.

They do point out some of the interesting things that happened while Mark Twain lived in the house, though, and describe some of the interesting items and furniture he had.

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I'm putting this into MyssCyn's audio bookbox on tapes.

Parts of this were real knee-slappers, like the dramatization from Huck Finn of the chapter "the Duke and the Dolphin". Having grown up near Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, MO, I don't always think about the fact that he lived most of his life elsewhere. I never knew, for instance, that he wrote most of his major works in that home in Hartford, CT, where this show was set.
There were many other things about Twain I learned from this one, including his bad investments.

Will pass this one along soon.....

This is going to iwillrejoice as a RABCK, in the company of several other audiobooks on tape. Enjoy!

Received this as part of a giant RABCK from BigJohnLefty. Thank you! I like Garrison Keilor, so I have high hopes for this one. :-)

I enjoyed this one. One of the songs is still going around in my head! I enjoyed the Americana & the story-telling. All-in-all, I give it a 7.

Thanks for sending it my way!

Released to a fellow BookMoocher in Ohio. Happy travels, little book!