profil de Betty Burks

Please, Mr. Blue, help a poor sinner!, Juil 19 2004

This is classic Garrison Keillor at his irreverent best. When he was in Knoxville, he haranged the Presbysterians. Just so he will know, we're not all that demonination -- I am Methodist! Oh dear, what would he have to say about that?

For some reason, I have the feeling he bases the character of Larry Wyler on himself as he makes fun of his arrogance and self-sufficiency as he leaves home to take on the big Apple, New York City. The wife Iris is obviously Mary Guntzel to whom he praises her memory as a friend of the helpless. We need more MGs in today's world.

Some of this novel is hilarious and so much like his public radio program 'A Prairie Home Companion' with all the drama and… Lire la suite