<![CDATA[Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189703978m/589819.jpg 589819 11 A fresh and funny Lake Wobegon novel about a woman with a secret life In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend Brent aboard Wally's pontoon boat, presided over by her minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America, their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus. And Barbara Peterson, whose mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at the Romeo Motel. An the then there is Raoul of the cigars and tinted shades and rainbow sportscoat and his long phone message ("Hey, Precious") after the angel of death has already come and gone. All is in readiness for the wedding--the giant shrimp shish kebabs, the French champagne, the wheels of imported cheese, the pate with whole peppercorns, the hot-air balloon, the flying Elvis, the pontoon boat, and the giant duck decoys--and then something else happens. It is Lake Wobegon as you've imagined it--good loving people who drive each other slightly crazy. 1055423 2006 Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel total:721|5:81|4:265|3:278|2:82|1:15| 721 2478 1042 224 5 2 true false Mon May 05 12:55:56 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 12:47:18 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 12:55:56 -0700 2008
The book is about carpe diem. Living your life to the fullest bec...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 26 06:56:03 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 28 15:39:45 -0800 2008
The stories ar...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 09:17:48 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 15:44:16 -0800 2007
The story has one of the best first lines:

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you hav...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 03 18:26:31 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 18:21:36 -0700 2007 When the angel of death came for Evelyn Peterson, she didn't know that Debbie Detmer would be back in Lake Wobegon for the first time in ages to be married, kinda, in a big lakeside ceremony on a pontoon boat with, among other things, a parachuting Elvis impersonator and a hot-air...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:14:57 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 18:22:56 -0700 2009
Keillor's character development is delightful. His description ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 13:18:07 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 12:36:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 21:02:45 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 21:02:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 12:38:03 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 12:45:45 -0700 2009
We’re in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, famous from Keillor’s Saturday night radio program “A Prairie Home Companion.” Two different events are occurring in Lake Wobeg...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 12:10:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 12:11:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 10:08:03 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 10:43:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:16:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:49:38 -0700 2009
Garrison Keillor bills himself as a humorist and most of the book "Pontoon" lives...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 10:18:47 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 21:19:59 -0700 2009 Prairie Home Companion, and being surprised that what I perceived as "wholesome" was really just "small town", and coming to the realization that "small town" does not equal "clean". So not only is there a surprising bit of crude...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 10:57:11 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 11:03:14 -0800 2007
a memorial service and wedding gone awry ... the perfect ending brought a group of Lutheran pastors from Denmark

makes me want to go to the video shop and rent the movie ... can't remember the name, but there was Meryl Streep...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 08:01:11 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 20:31:09 -0700 2009 Pontoon is a dryly hysterical story from NPR's very own Garrison Keillor. I'd never read anything of his before, only heard his radio show, and was surprised to find how smoothly t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 04 18:29:13 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 15:52:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 11 05:20:11 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 05:36:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 12:36:27 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 12:46:14 -0700 2009 Keillor doesn't leave anything out of his tales....more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 04:20:54 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 07:41:16 -0800 2009
A lot of the familiar Lake Wobegon places and people are, of course, included. Pastor Inqvist of the Luthera...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 18:19:44 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 18:21:24 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Sat May 03 11:40:37 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 11:42:15 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=589819