This book was an absolute pleasure. Light, fun, well constructed to help jokes pay off, this novel tells the story of a radio station. Nay, not just A radio station, but THE radio station. WLT, started to advertise for the Soderberg family restaurant, becomes their main source of revenue. In this story we are carried along from it's inception through it's demise and along the way we meet quite the cast of characters. From the ladies man gospel singer, to the aura reading actress turned writer of 6 shows daily, to our lead, Francis With, who becomes Frank White, something of a Walter Kronkite figure.
We have already met the majority of the WLT family when we are introduced to Frank and we see them both develop in tandem with WLT eventually becoming a first 'home' for the newscaster to be.
Told in the typical Keillor style, we catch just enough of Ole and Lena jokes to glean the whole picture and we see our characters in all their glory and their flaws stand out in the most hilarious of ways.
My only dig is how this book wraps up. We are thrown 40 years into the future, given allusions of poor character choices that all seem ungrounded but we never get concrete answers and we are left guessing about our main character's integrity. Well, a book has to end somewhere and I suppose this choice was not the worst I've read.
It was a delightful read, I can't wait to bump into another Garrison Keillor book and I do intend to tell people about how great a read it was.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment