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Serenity at 70, Gaiety at 80: Why You Should Keep On Getting Older

A book from Garrison Keillor, a man nearing age 80, on leaning into the beauty of getting old. “My life is so good at 79 I wonder why I waited this long to get here,” he writes. You learn that Less Is More, the great lesson of Jesus and also Buddha. Each day becomes important after you pass the point of life expectancy. Big problems vanish, small things make you happy. And the worst is behind you because you lack the energy to be as foolish as you might otherwise be.
 
You’ll learn the 23 rules for aging, including “Enumerate your benefits,” “Enjoy inertia,” “Get out of the way,” “Don’t fight with younger people; they will be writing your obituary,” and finally, “Ignore rules you read in a book. Do what you were going to do anyway.”
 
Readers are sure to chuckle at the wisdom and humor contained in this short, full-color volume, which includes as supplementary material both photos from Garrison’s life as well as fine art.

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Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel AUDIOBOOK (CD set)

The wait is over! Many have inquired about getting Boom Town read by Garrison himself. Well, the time has come: the Audible exclusive window has ended and the recording is available wherever you get your books and downloads. 

“At 79, Keillor remains a smooth writer, and his ability to create realistic but quirky characters and then spin endless, oddball stories about them is as strong as ever.” — Star Tribune Review

***** “I think I’ve read almost all Mr. Keillor’s books, and this may be his best one yet. He goes back to Lake Wobegon to attend a funeral and finds his old pals failing and the town booming with new entrepreneurial energy. It is smart, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny. His humor has matured like a fine wine. Well done, Garrison!” — Elana (Washington)    
 
 ***** “Keillor’s latest Lake Wobegon tale is clever on so many levels. He weaves in self-deprecating humor surely borrowed from his own experiences while at the same time interweaving plot angles from the headlines. He falls back on the many characters readers have come to love as they reveal their flaws and grudges. Keillor extends his stay in town as his friends start dying so that he can provide eulogies, including to a few he didn’t particularly care for. And his recall of his first intimate relationship and how he and that friend bring their relationship to a close is quite touching. This superb plot is capped off with writing that just gets better and better. I can’t wait for his next novel.” — J. Willis Mitchell (Colorado)

 
Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship — AuntMildred’s.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored by the humor and grace of his old girlfriend Arlene and a visit from his wife, Giselle, who arrives from New York for a big love scene in an old lake cabin.

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RETURN TO LAKE WOBEGON, 1983

We have raided the vault and assembled the fourth chronological look at the origin stories of Lake Wobegon! When A Prairie Home Companion went national in 1980, Garrison Keillor started turning his vignettes, updates, and letters from Lake Wobegon into a full-fledged story each week. In this vintage collection, you can hear America’s favorite storyteller hone his craft in front of a live audience, regaling them with stories about what takes place in “the little town that time forgot and decades could not improve.” This collection includes monologues from A Prairie Home Companion that aired in the year 1983.

These stories will enchant you today as much as they did four decades ago. Many haven’t been heard since about 1987, so this Lake Wobegon story collection will be new to many fans. It’s time to return to your favorite small town.

The residents complain about overly warm spring weather; the Lake Wobegon economy is running on loyalty, deism, and nepotism; and the juniors prepare the prom for the seniors — kind of like Social Security. Rumors go around about Ms. Berge’s torrid romance, and the host muses that telling lies about people is better than ignoring them completely. Lyle desperately tries to avoid needing his brother-in-law Carl’s help starting his car in winter, and the quiet people of Lake Wobegon show they’re having a good time at Christmas by humming and perhaps tapping their feet a little bit.

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