A collection of Garrison Keillor’s pieces from the 1980s: stories, comic monologues, observations, notes, poems, mock confessionals, and small-town American oddities delivered in his unmistakably dry, gently skewed voice.

A bit of literary humour, radio-era storytelling, Midwestern satire, and essayistic miscellany — less a straight short story collection than a loose cabinet of voices, jokes, scenes, and miniature performances. Keillor is very much working the territory of domestic absurdity, public manners, marriage, American provincial life, memory, embarrassment and those sentiments and rituals people build around themselves. Best for readers who like comic literary Americana, A Prairie Home Companion, old New Yorker-ish humour, Thurber-adjacent observation, or writing that appears mild until it quietly turns sharp.

Faber and Faber paperback. First published in Great Britain in 1989; this revised paperback edition first published in 1990, reprinted 1990. Good second-hand condition with light shelfwear, edge/corner wear, and some page toning. Cover has visible handling but presents well.