A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty? Clint is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon - the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-zero mornings. For six years he has run the Fourth of July parade, and has turned into an event of dazzling spectacle that has attracted the attention of CNN and prompted the governor to put in an appearance as well. The town is dizzy with anticipation. Until, that is, they hear of Clint's ambition to run for Congress. They're embarrassed for him - his unfortunate episodes involving vodka sours, his rocky marriage. And then there's his friendship with the twenty-four-year-old girl dressed up as the Statue of Liberty for the Parade. It's rumoured that underneath those robes she is buck naked, and that her torch contains a quart of booze.
About the Author
Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of radio s A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer s Almanac , and wrote the screenplay for Robert Altman s film A Prairie Home Companion in which he also appears. Born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, he graduated from the University of Minnesota, and lives in St Paul with his wife and daughter. Apart from a six-year radio silence, Garrison Keillor has hosted A Prairie Home Companion since its debut in 1974, chronicling life in a Minnesotan small town in his weekly monologues, the inspiration for his Lake Wobegon stories and novels. His many books include Lake Wobegon Days (1985), The Book of Guys (1993), Love Me (2003) and Homegrown Democrat (2004), and two anthologies drawing on his Writer s Almanac poem selections, Good Poems (2002) and Good Poems for Hard Times (2005). 77 Love Sonnets (Common Good Books, USA, 2009; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2011) is his first collection of his own poetry; he reads all the poems on two CDs issued separately from the book by Highbridge in the US but included free with Bloodaxe s UK edition.
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