About Alice |
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Author:
| Trillin, Calvin |
ISBN: | 978-1-4223-9340-6 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
Publisher: | DIANE Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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In Calvin Trillin¿s antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had ¿a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day¿ & the mother who thought that if you didn¿t go to every performance of your child¿s school play, ¿the county will come & take the child.¿ Now, 5 years after her death, Trillin offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin -- an educator who was equally at home teaching at a univ. or a drug treatment center, a gifted writer, & a...
More DescriptionIn Calvin Trillin¿s antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had ¿a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day¿ & the mother who thought that if you didn¿t go to every performance of your child¿s school play, ¿the county will come & take the child.¿ Now, 5 years after her death, Trillin offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin -- an educator who was equally at home teaching at a univ. or a drug treatment center, a gifted writer, & a beautiful & thoroughly engaged woman. Though the book deals with devastating loss, this is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party when Trillin tried to impress a young woman who ¿seemed to glow.¿ In his writing, she was sometimes his subject & always his muse.