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Pilgrims: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Hardcover)

By: Garrison Keillor (Author)

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"Those who marginalize Keillor as merely the host of an old-style radio show mistake the messenger for the message. They misinterpret his lulling tones and assume he serves up softhearted soporifics about a gentle world in which all drama is outhouse- or icehouse-centric and life's worst disasters can be solved with a plunger or rhubarb pie. Not true: Keillor's characters have always been complex and real, they have always spun out, and they have always shown that they can be horribly lost and reeling or capable of deep-cutting cruelty."

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Proposing a trip to Rome in the guise of performing an act of charity while secretly hoping to seduce her distant husband, Margie is dismayed by her husband's unwillingness and the enthusiasm of several fellow passengers, who share with Margie stories from their own pasts. By the best-selling author of Liberty.

Proposing a trip to Rome in the guise of performing an act of charity while secretly hoping to seduce her distant husband, Margie is dismayed by her husband's unwillingness and the enthusiasm of several fellow passengers, who share with Margie stories from their own pasts. By the best-selling author of Liberty.

Wobegon goes abroad in this rousing and moving story of a group trip to Rome
Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to heraheas been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussy Norlander, died in the liberation of Rome, 1944, and his grave, according to his elderly brother, Norbert, is in a neglected weed patch near the Colosseum. So itas decided they will go to clean Gussyas final resting place. Margie is unprepared for the enthusiastic responsea fifty people want to go with her, including her nemesis, the mayor of Lake Wobegon, Carlas bossy sister, Eloise, Mr. Berge the town drunk, and her treacherous mother-in-law. Margie fends off some of the would-be travelers with a graphic handout on the dangers of typhus and food poisoning and the seriousness of diarrhea, but ten applicants remain, though Carl is not sure he wants to go after all. At this, a heartbroken Margie gets the motley crew to the airport and aboard the plane, and then discovers one of the secret pleasures of travelasafely away from Lake Wobegon, the pilgrimsa memories are quickened and they recall long-forgotten incidents. In the warm circle of kinship, as they enter alien territory, they tell stories of astonishing frankness and self-revelation all delivered with Keilloras trademark humor.

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Garrison Keillor shows that he can take his characters out of Lake Wobegon, but he can not take Lake Wobegon out of his characters. As part of a complex scheme to have sex with her apathetic husband, Margie Krebsbach proposes a trip to romantic Rome, under the pretense of caring for the neglected gravesite of Gussy Norlander, a former Wobegon citizen who is buried there. But the more private the news, the faster it seems to travel in Lake Wobegon, and Margie is bombarded with requests from people who want to take up Gussy's cause and accompany the Krebsbachs to Italy. Margie uses her wits to whittle down the trip's participants, who discover that the old country has a magical way of rekindling memories of the good old days, proving once again that the best part of the trip is the journey home.

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