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Title details for A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor - Available

A Christmas Blizzard

by Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
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A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard.A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he's not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday. In his reverie, our man reaches an epiphany worthy of the season-he hears the harkening angels sing, he is awed by the silence of the night (dead quiet: not even TV) and when he is finally rescued, leaves North Dakota resolved to simplify his life.

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  • Release date

    November 10, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781598879384
      • File size: 142408 KB
      • Duration: 04:56:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from December 21, 2009
      A round up of potential stocking stuffers: what to avoid, gift, or keep for yourself.
      A Christmas Blizzard
      Garrison Keillor
      , read by the author. HighBridge
      , unabridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $26.95 ISBN 978-1-59887-927-8

      Keillor returns to the snowy Midwest to deliver a Dickensian tale of Chicago yuppies James and Joyce Sparrow, who venture to Looseleaf, N. Dak., to see James's dying uncle, braving a deadly blizzard and equally deadly small town eccentrics. The simple and well-written story is taken to fresh heights by the author's obvious pleasure in reading his own work. This polished production brims with seasonal cheer, caustic wit, and Keillor's signature folksy style. A Viking hardcover.

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  • English

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