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Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

Audiobook
Fiction: Garrison Keillor / A Prairie Home Companion / Humor
Fully dramatized   4 hour(s)
Publication date: 05/15/2012

Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

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Audio CD ISBN:9781611746785
Digital Download ISBN:9781611746792

Summary

Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion® to a new adventure, fully dramatized and performed for audio.

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Product Description

On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women’s-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know—Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy’s ex-girlfriend Sugar O’Toole, the despicable Larry B. Larry, the dreamboat Scarlett Anderson, Mr. Kress of the FDA—and Guy faces them one by one, as he and Naomi pursue a dream of earning gazillions by selling a surefire method of dramatic weight loss. In this whirlwind caper Guy looks death in the eye, falls in love, and faces off with the capo del capo del grande primo capo Johnny Banana.

Reviews/Praise

“Equal parts silliness, satire, and lecherous daydream.”
      —AudioFile

“A fine caper of romance and intrigue receives a powerful radio dramatization perfect for any general lending library!”
      —California Bookwatch

“A thoroughly enjoyable listen.”
      —Publishers Weekly

“Pure fun and a romp through a mystery and adventure with some great humor and classic literature references, and even a few pop culture jabs thrown in to keep the story fresh.”
      —Gil T.’s Pleasures

Author Bio

GARRISON KEILLOR is America’s favorite storyteller. For more than 35 years, as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of listeners with his weekly News from Lake Wobegon monologues. A Prairie Home Companion is heard on hundreds of public radio stations, as well as America One, the Armed Forces Networks, Sirius Satellite Radio, and via a live audio webcast.

Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities. When not touring, he resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.