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About Alice
por TRILLIN, Calvin
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- Condição
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400066158
- ISBN 13
- 9781400066155
- Livreiro
-
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
NY:: Random House,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. 9781400066155 . Fourth printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. .
Sinopse
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 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 74936
- Título
- About Alice
- Autor
- TRILLIN, Calvin
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400066158
- ISBN 13
- 9781400066155
- Editorial
- Random House,
- Local de publicação
- NY:
- Data de publicação
- 2007
- Palavras-chave
- 9781400066155, BIOGRAPHY, SIGNED
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Sobre o Vendedor
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Membro de Biblio desde 2003
Springfield, Massachusetts
Sobre Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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