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Liberty
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
Lake Wobegon is in a frenzy of preparations for the Fourth of July. This being Wobegon, lives collide and relationships develop in the oddest ways. Take Clint Bunson, the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts cars on below-zero mornings. For six years, he has run the Fourth of July parade, turning what was once a line of pickup trucks into an event of dazzling spectacle.
The town is dizzy with anticipation - until they hear of Clint's ambition to run for Congress. They know about his episodes with vodka sours, his rocky marriage, and his friendship with the 24-year-old who dresses up as the Statue of Liberty for the parade and may be buck naked beneath her robes.
In Keillor's words, "It is Lake Wobegon as you imagined it - good loving people who drive each other crazy."
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- Leon Will
- 22-04-19
Garrison narrates the story and brings it to life
Garrison narrates the story and brings it to life.
He has a voice which is ideal for the radio/audiable media and brings stories to life. Engaging and totally absorbing, you are displaced.
Wonderful, for a peaceful enjoyable Sunday Morning with nothing to do.
more please!!!
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- Tambo
- 08-04-16
Triumphant old age
Woebegon stories creep up on you then embrace you. Make you laugh and think: great
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- Steven
- 08-12-09
Every bit as good as Lake Wobegon
To begin with I didn't find this quite as easy to get into as Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' but, once I did, it was excellent. As with Lakewobegon,the story is about a town populated by likeable eccentrics and yet the characters and the story itself are entirely plausible.There's a tremondous warmth to this book and I would strongly recommend it.
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- PC
- 19-07-18
Wonderful, bitter-sweet humour
Only Garrison Keillor can really read his own work as it ought to be read. Wonderful, bitter-sweet humour and dry, wry observations on small-town life, superbly narrated. Keillor has a fantastic, dead-pan delivery that savours each sentence, and perfect comic timing. Highly recommended.
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- P. G. Foxe
- 08-12-16
Poignant..as usual
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Garrison Keillor is the only person to recite his works. He gives a great sense of being there, of wistfulness, of a liberal minded person who has to endure the rage of others who are judgemental without them realising how much they upset him.
Would you recommend Liberty to your friends? Why or why not?
This is not a book for kids. It is about the 'male menopause', a time which happens in the life of many men as they settle into middle age. It carries a sense of a wasted, unfulfilled life and a desperate urge to do something, anything, while you are still hale and hearty. This book captures it very well. While it is certainly humorous and amusing, there is a serious side to it, and Clint's state of mind is not a laughing matter. There is pathos and sorrow, and regret, and if you have known this state, it can also be painful. Its about coming to terms with what you have, and trying to wrestle with the reality that you are not as happy as you would like to be.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
There are no 'big' scenes, but a series of vignettes all connected by the 4th of July event.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Not at all. There is not a strong narrative thread, but a series of interactions accompanied by Clint's internal monologue. You can pick it up and put it down easily.
Any additional comments?
A very American book, in that it deals with feelings very openly. It would be rare to find a UK author who is as self aware.
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