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Lake wobegon days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractionsand get renewed from time to time. The shorter pieces the midlife crisis of dionysus, omoo the wolf boy do better, but even at his windiest, keillor is more talented at the thurber business than anybody since. Guy noir works on the twelfth floor of the acme building in a city that knows how to keep its secrets, st. Read the book of guys stories by garrison keillor available from rakuten kobo. A treasury of hilarity from one of americas favorite radio shows.
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