Pontoon

Though it is set in the same milieu as the more famous book, this seamless carpet of prose is miles better than Lake Wobegon Days ... in his customary, unsurprised tone, Keillor weaves the everyday, the surreal and the downright magical into an ironic yarn that is cheerily reassuring about Middle America.

'Terribly amusing...with Keillor's gift for the small detail that sets your funny bone humming undiminished. And yet not far beneath the surface is an authentic sadness about life's brevity.'

'A compassionate writer, yet one with a forensic eye for human weakness. He also provides a few laugh-out-loud moments.' ,