A Christmas Blizzard

A Novel

5 Sound Discs (5.5 hours)

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2009 by High Bridge, New York.

ISBN:
978-1-59887-927-8
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A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard. A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he's not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday. In his reverie, our man reaches an epiphany worthy of the season—he hears the harkening angels sing, he is awed by the silence of the night (dead quiet: not even TV) and when he is finally rescued, leaves North Dakota resolved to simplify his life.

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A great ending that meandered to get there

I liked this book it was pretty okay. The ending was really great but boy did it take time to get there. Lots of little tiny stories throughout kind of expected for Garrison Keillor but he really isn't as great at telling stories as he was in the eighties.

I finished it in just one day so that's mostly because it was an audiobook and I had a long trip that day. If this was dead tree version i'm not sure if I ever would have made it to the end.

Rich guy from the edge of the Prairie become such through no thanks to his own hard work he hates Christmas his wife loves Christmas he wants to go to Hawaii his uncle is dying he gets there things are not as he was told he has a really strange not quite sexual experience with his cousin? OK, I …

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Subjects

  • North Dakota in fiction
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Literature
  • Travelers
  • Man-woman relationships in fiction
  • Blizzards
  • Blizzards in fiction
  • Fiction
  • Travelers in fiction
  • Christmas stories
  • Large type books
  • Man-woman relationship
  • Christmas
  • Love stories
  • Comics & graphic novels, general
  • North dakota, fiction
  • Fiction, humorous