Leaving Home

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"Leaving Home" is a collection of humorous and nostalgic stories by Garrison Keillor set in the fictional Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
author Garrison Keillor
basedOn A Prairie Home Companion radio monologues
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtDepicts small Midwestern town scene
genre humor
nostalgic fiction
hasAdaptation public readings by Garrison Keillor
hasFictionalCharacter Clarence Bunsen
Pastor Inqvist
various Lake Wobegon residents
hasFictionalUniverse Lake Wobegon Days
surface form: Lake Wobegon series
hasFormat hardcover
paperback
hasReception critical acclaim for humor and warmth
hasStyle oral-narrative-inspired prose
storytelling
hasSubject Lutheran culture
Scandinavian-American heritage
hasTone humorous
nostalgic
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement contemporary American literature
mainThemes coming of age
community
family relationships
memory
small-town life
marketedAs Lake Wobegon Days
surface form: Lake Wobegon stories
mediaType print
narrativeLocation Minnesota
narrativePerspective first-person narration
narrativeRegion Midwestern United States
partOfSeries Lake Wobegon books
publicationYear 1987
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
setting Lake Wobegon
fictional town
targetAudience adult readers
timePeriodOfSetting late 20th century

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Garrison Keillor notableWork Leaving Home
Lake Wobegon Days followedBy Leaving Home
Lake Wobegon notableWork Leaving Home