About Alice
de TRILLIN: Calvin
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
Palgrave, Ontario, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A love story of many years. Cover white, book nice and clean and not cracked. D.J. not price clipped and clean. No edgewear. A small book
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
- Hockley Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 001731
- 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
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- Biography
Términos de venta
Hockley Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Hockley Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
Palgrave, Ontario
Sobre Hockley Books
Hockley Books specializes in Canadian History with a focus on local histories. In addition there is a good selection of biography and fiction especially literary fiction. Mysteries, travel etc add to the flavour.
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- Cracked
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