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About Alice - Calvin Trillin

By Calvin Trillin

Release Date: 2006-12-26

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.

In Calvin Trillinā€™s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had ā€œa weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a dayā€ and the mother who thought that if you didnā€™t go to every performance of your childā€™s school play, ā€œthe county would come and take the child.ā€ Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the pageā€“his loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the pageā€“an educator who was equally at home teaching at a university or a drug treatment center, a gifted writer, a stunningly beautiful and thoroughly engaged woman who, in the words of a friend, ā€œmanaged to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.ā€

Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party when Calvin Trillin desperately tried to impress a young woman who ā€œseemed to glow.ā€
ā€œYou have never again been as funny as you were that night,ā€ Alice would say, twenty or thirty years later.
ā€œYou mean I peaked in December of 1963?ā€
ā€œIā€™m afraid so.ā€

But he never quit trying to impress her. In his writing, she was sometimes his subject and always his muse. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, ā€œI wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice.ā€

In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with About Alice, created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers.

About Alice - Calvin Trillin

By Calvin Trillin

Release Date: 2006-12-26

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

4.5 (21 ratings)
Read Download
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.

In Calvin Trillinā€™s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had ā€œa weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a dayā€ and the mother who thought that if you didnā€™t go to every performance of your childā€™s school play, ā€œthe county would come and take the child.ā€ Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the pageā€“his loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the pageā€“an educator who was equally at home teaching at a university or a drug treatment center, a gifted writer, a stunningly beautiful and thoroughly engaged woman who, in the words of a friend, ā€œmanaged to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.ā€

Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party when Calvin Trillin desperately tried to impress a young woman who ā€œseemed to glow.ā€
ā€œYou have never again been as funny as you were that night,ā€ Alice would say, twenty or thirty years later.
ā€œYou mean I peaked in December of 1963?ā€
ā€œIā€™m afraid so.ā€

But he never quit trying to impress her. In his writing, she was sometimes his subject and always his muse. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, ā€œI wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice.ā€

In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with About Alice, created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers.

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