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In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a ...Show synopsisIn Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day" and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, "the county would come and take the child." Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page-his loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page-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, "managed 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." 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 "seemed to glow." "You have never again been as funny as you were that night," Alice would say, twenty or thirty years later. "You mean I peaked in December of 1963?" "I'm afraid so." 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, "I wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice." In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with "About Alice," created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers.Hide synopsis
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I was somewhat disappointed about this book, because I was expecting something valuable to learn from Alice Trillin's trajectory through life.
She was apparently a remarkable human being, but instead of reading specific details about what made her special, I was left with primarily a superficial ...
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Calvin Trillin is one of my favorite writers. His latest work, About Alice, is now one of my favorite books.
The subject of this slender book is Trillin's late wife, Alice, and his deep love for her. I felt as if I had known Alice and will not easily forget the anecdote about "the shoes."
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"About Alice" is a short book. Written by Calvin Trillin to honor is beloved wife, the eponymous Alice, who died five years ago, this slight tome is big of heart and largely a glance back at a woman with whom many readers have become acquainted through Trillin?s sizeable and entertaining body of work ...
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Not having previously read any of Calvin Trillin's books, I was not sure what to expect by this, but was pleasantly surprised. The story is a loving tribute to his wife, whom he truly admired and appreciated. It is a delightful, though sad, story of their life and love affair, told through the author ...
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