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First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin,
a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991
Published in Penguin Books 1992

 

 

Copyright © Garrison Keillor, 1991

All rights reserved

 

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Parts of this book first appeared in The New Yorker and The Gettysburg Review. Some early traces of it appeared in three New Yorker stories entitled “WLT (The Edgar Era),” “Friendly Neighbor,” and “The Slim Graves Show,” and I stole a few lines from “The Tip-Top Club,” which was first published in The Atlantic Monthly. All four stories later appeared in the Penguin edition of Happy to Be Here. I am grateful to Peter Stitt for his invaluable help with the manuscript and to Kathryn Court, who edited it, and to Caroline White, who assisted her. For the Ole and Lena jokes, I am indebted to the Ole and Lena jokebooks by Red Strangland (Norse Press, Sioux Falls, S.D.).—G.K.

 

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

 

ISBN : 978-1-101-57270-2

 

 

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