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Title: Painfully Funny and Wonderfully Nasty
Review: This is one of the funniest books I've ever read, but under the humor is an undercurrent of anger, in the best sense of the word. Keillor has been pigeonholed as the "Prairie Home Companion guy," and his overwhelming success as a radio personality overshadows his great great writing. The sidestory of John Tollefson's involvement in a "farm restaurant" and the hippie/New Age building contractor who eventually...oh, I won't spoil the plot....is worth the price of the book. At turns laugh-out-loud funny, nasty and sentimental, I've reread this book twice for the sheer pleasure. His best novel.
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