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About Alice
de Trillin, Calvin
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400066158
- ISBN 13
- 9781400066155
- Librería
-
Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States
Precio
EUR 14.06EUR 11.25
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Sobre este artículo
Random House, 2006-12-26. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Very good first edition first printing in very good price unclipped dust jacket ($14.95). Binding is solid. Jacket is nice with some shelfwear. Will ship (and look great) in an archival quality clear Brodart cover. We use quality packaging materials.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Third Person Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- N6AAL
- Título
- About Alice
- Autor
- Trillin, Calvin
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400066158
- ISBN 13
- 9781400066155
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006-12-26
- Tamaño
- 8x5x0
- X weight
- 34 oz
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- Brodart
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- Jacket
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