Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel AUDIOBOOK (mp3 download)

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Audiobook of Boom Town in mp3 format, read by Garrison Keillor himself with music composed and performed by Richard Dworsky.

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Tracklist:

Intro
Chapter 1 - A New World
Chapter 2 - Lake Cabin
Chapter 3 - Seeing Arlene
Chapter 4 - Millennialism
Chapter 5 - Mr. González
Chapter 6 - Becoming
Chapter 7 - Current Affairs
Chapter 8 - 119th
Chapter 9 - The Improvement Movement
Chapter 10 - The King of Norway
Chapter 11 - Cream of Happiness
Chapter 12 - Sisterhood
Chapter 13 - Syttende Mai
Chapter 14 - The Passing of the Class
Chapter 15 - Sunday Mass
Chapter 16 - Plain Facts Faced
Chapter 17 - A Fine Job
Credits

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With Boom Town, Garrison Keillor returns to his hometown of Lake Wobegon, which is in the midst of a rising economic tide driven by millennial entrepreneurs. “I go back home mainly for funerals, which these days are for people my age, 79, which gets my attention, an obituary with my number in it,” he writes, as he sits at the bedside of Arlene Bunsen dying with humor and grace, and recalls a teenage love affair with Marlys Gunderson and observes the millennial culture, a stark contrast to the Lutheran farm town of the radio monologues. He spends the summer in the old Gunderson lake cabin, reliving the past, postponing his return to New York and his wife Giselle.

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