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A Wake-Up Call to the Guy Within |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: David Kirby |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,773 Words, 9,804 Characters |
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THE BOOK OF GUYS
Garrison Keillor
New York: Viking, 1993
340 pp., $22.00
I admit it--I had forgotten about My Life as a Guy until Garrison Keillor made me look at it unflinchingly with his new collection of humorous sketches.
The Book of Guys will probably have that effect on a lot of readers. These twenty-two sketches, many of which have appeared in the New Yorker and Harper's, deal in one way or another with that pathetic, self-betraying creature the New Age Man, a neutered, mixed-up version of the stubble-faced, sportsloving moron with a fridge full of beer known simply as "a guy."
If adjectives like "pathetic" and "self-betraying" have a certain choleric bite to them, that is because the Garrison Keillor who wrote this book seems more exasperated here than he does in ...
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...says, that's the best an ex-guy can do these days.
In the end, the reader of these sketches is less likely to reflect on Keillor's memorable characters, who are few and far between, and more apt to apply the author's wry and even bitter insights to his own existence. C+, huh? Oh, well, at least I can take comfort in the fact that, like the children of Lake Wobegon, I am above average. vbcrlf
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