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Pontoon by: Garrison Keillor List Price: £16.99 CD-Charts Price: £10.19 You Save: £6.80 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780571240227 ISBN: 0571240224 Label: Faber and Faber Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: December 13, 2007 Publisher: Faber and Faber Studio: Faber and Faber Sales Rank: 196423 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - what a shameI love everything that GK has written - but not this. It felt rushed; the new characters felt stale and the slapstick was tedious - even slightly adolescent. I also noticed the rehashed pastors in a pontoon story. There was a strange whiff of cynicism about it. Contrast this with the wonderful 'Love me', 'Leaving Home' or pretty much anything else Keillor has written. Rating:  - Funny, understated and gentleIf you're already a devotee of Garrison Keillor's books on life in the town of Lake Wobegon, chances are you'll love this latest tale. If not, why not take the plunge ? This is a gentle, but deceptively sharp, story of the death of Evelyn Peterson and what happens as her family first reflects on the life of a woman whose passing discloses a hidden existence they barely knew she had, and then carries out her final wish: to have her ashes sealed into a bowling ball and dropped into the lake from a parasail. Along the way, the world of stolid Minnesota Lutherans collides with that of a local woman made good, now back in town and intent on a typically West Coast (and very unWobegonian) wedding on the lake. Throw in a group of Danish pastors sent ... Read More: Rating: - Things ain't what they used to bePerhaps I'm being a little unfair to this book, having just read Keillor's "Radio Romance"--a far better book--and Zamoyski's "1812", which is my candidate for book of the year. As much as I wanted to like Pontoon, it is set in the present day, and the old formula just doesn't work. The magic of the old days were that small Midwestern towns were almost self-contained universes, connected to the outside world only by radio and badly-paved roads (and a train, if they were lucky). Now that my last friends and relatives from Saginaw are either dead or moved, I find the place unutterably depressing--little more than a bleak dormitory with attached slums. Keillor does his best to rescue the present-day Lake Wobegon from a similar fate, ... Read More: Rating: - The brilliance of the ordinaryThe wonder and excitement of ordinary, everyday life: Lake Wobegone is an unexceptional place with plain, run-of-the-mill residents where nothing of interest is supposed to happen. Yet it does. Small-town America, full of people who should have little experience of life outside their own county, let alone country, but whose small dramas and life stories make for riveting reading. Garrison Keillor's book is just like the town he writes about: the dull is interesting, the uneventful eventful and those things supposed to be wonderful and exceptional are pointless, boring and facile. This book should not be interesting, but it is, there is no grand revelation here just good, entertaining writing that had me up to the middle of the night wanting to know ... Read More: |
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