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Written & performed by Garrison Keillor - Fiction - Original Programs - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (January 1994)

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Publishers Weekly says: "Bewailing the lost grandeur of manhood and lambasting the half-baked perversion known as '90s man, Keillor (Lake Wobegon Days) brings wit, the gift of storytelling and marksman like satire to this collection of 22 short fictions dissecting the current predicament of guys. Invoking various archetypal guys--cowboy, sports hero, Greek god, Don Juan--he brings each into collision with contemporary values stressing sensitivity, openness, communication, monogamy, the empowerment of women and a healthy diet. The results are provocative and hilarious. Dionysus turns 50 and is forced to seek help for his sex and alcohol problems. Baseball legend Casey of Mudville is barraged with garbage at an away game. Cattleman Lonesome Shorty gives up the range to try condominium life. President George Bush goes fishing with an admiring Willie Horton while barbarians invade Chicago. Keillor takes delicious swipes at the media, fad causes, political correctness and American tabloid culture as he convincingly sketches the precarious state of his fellow males, longing for the days when they could just be guys."

In eight new tales, the old storyteller plumbs the lives of various guys---an aging god, a fallen hero, a confused cowboy, a jealous husband, an old lecher, a teen-age leper, and more---and locates the true nature of guyhood today.

Includes:

The Mid-life Crisis of Dionysus
Herb Johnson
The God of Canton
Casey at the Bat (Road Game Version)
Lonesome Shorty
Don Giovanni
Marooned
Buddy the Leper
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
and more....