In Calvin Trillinâ€™s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had â€œa weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a dayâ€ and the mother who thought

About Alice

In Calvin Trillinâ€™s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had â€œa weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a dayâ€ and the mother who thought that if you didnâ€™t go to every performance of your childâ€™s school play, â€œthe county would come and take the child.â€ Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the pageâ€“his loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the pageâ€“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, â€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.â€

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 â€œseemed to glow.â€
â€œYou have never again been as funny as you were that night,â€ Alice would say, twenty or thirty years later.
â€œYou mean I peaked in December of 1963?â€
â€œIâ€™m afraid so.â€

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, â€œI wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice.â€

In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with About Alice, created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781400066155
Color White
ReleaseDate 2006-12-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400066155

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781400066155
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2006-12-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400066155

About Alice

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