Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
1987 anthology by Garrison Keillor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories is a short story anthology written by Garrison Keillor, a humorous fictional account of life in small-town Minnesota set in the fictitious heartland town of Lake Wobegon. It was first published in hardcover by Viking Penguin, Inc. in 1987.
Author | Garrison Keillor |
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Language | English |
Series | Lake Wobegon |
Genre | Short story |
Publisher | Viking Penguin |
Publication date | 1987 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 244 |
ISBN | 0-670-81976-X |
OCLC | 16227460 |
813/.54 19 | |
LC Class | PS3561.E3755 L43 1987 |
Preceded by | Lake Wobegon Days |
Followed by | We Are Still Married |
The book is a collection of thirty-six of the author's "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues from his radio program A Prairie Home Companion, slightly revised for print publication. They are prefaced by "A Letter from Copenhagen." At the time of the book's initial publication, Keillor had left A Prairie Home Companion, and this was apparently a farewell to Lake Wobegon. He would, however, return to the program and to creating Lake Wobegon monologues in the 1990s.