{"product_id":"that-time-of-year-garrison-keillor-9781956763171","title":"That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of \u003ci\u003eA Prairie Home Companion\u003c\/i\u003e shares his own remarkable story.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThat Time of Year\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eA Prairie Home Companion \u003c\/i\u003eand 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馥 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Garrison Keillor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1956763171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956763171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.18d","brand":"Garrison Keillor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078708162815,"sku":"9781956763171","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22a3dba5-e113-497a-b913-50789665a957.jpg?v=1685477054","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/that-time-of-year-garrison-keillor-9781956763171","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}