Pilgrims

Pilgrims

by Garrison Keillor (Author)

Synopsis

Garrison Keillor returns to the little town we love and continues to chronicle the lives of our favorite folks. Margie Krebsbach hopes that a trip to Rome will inspire her husband Carl to make love to her. He's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. That's her real reason for the trip, but she finds a patriotic purpose as well: a Lake Wobegon boy died in the liberation of the city in 1944, and his grave is in a neglected weed patch near the Coliseum. So it's decided they will go to clean Gussy Norlander's final resting place. What begins as a trip for two turns into a modern-day Canterbury Tales as more Wobegonians decide to go alone - including Margie's nemesis, the mayor, Carl's bossy sister Eloise; her treacherous mother-in-law; and Mr. Berge, the town drunk. She gets the motley crew to the airport and aboard the plane, then discovers one of the secret pleasures of travel: away from home, the pilgrims share stories of astonishing frankness and self-revelation.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 09 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0571252419
ISBN 13: 9780571252411

Author Bio
Garrison Keillor lives in St Paul, Minnesota, home of A Prairie Home Companion, his radio show that has been on the air since 1974. He wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home Companion and is the author of many books including the Lake Wobegon novels, the most recent of which was The New York Times bestseller, Pontoon.