false <![CDATA[About Alice]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171308056m/95961.jpg 95961 9 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. 1168959 26 12 2006 About Alice total:1087|5:357|4:404|3:256|2:58|1:12| 1087 4297 1480 279 5 4 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon May 07 09:36:10 -0700 2007 Mon May 07 16:13:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 25 12:49:48 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 12:50:38 -0700 2008 About Alice is Calvin Trillin's beautiful, loving tribute to his late wife, Alice. After over forty years together he still speaks of her with that true-love light in his voice, as if she could have done no wrong~and those things she did do which differed from him, which perhaps annoyed him, which p...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 28 19:31:19 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 23 12:25:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 12:35:30 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 06:21:44 -0800 2009
This is a charming book that I just heard in audio form--read by the author. That...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 13:13:02 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 13:19:29 -0700 2007
This is a tiny book, around seventy pages or ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 20 19:42:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 17 10:24:33 -0800 2007
(When I heard he had once been repeatedly reprimanded and finally fired from ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 13 21:30:58 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 21:31:24 -0700 2008
To me, this is a love story -- but not in the usual sense of that term. It's true that the romantic, love-at-fi...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:56:59 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 12:16:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 08 08:51:36 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 09:21:07 -0700 2008 It is a compact tome, with chapters representing themes that repeated throughout some 36 years of marriage. There is not o...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Feb 28 22:12:33 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 22:48:23 -0800 2008
After reading this, you'll want to read more from Alice herself. If you ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 06:04:04 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 06:09:15 -0700 2007
I didn't think it lived up to the acclaim.

The book is a postscript to the author's other writings about his beloved wife, Alice, who passed away last year. Calvin had...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 09:35:29 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 16:59:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 27 07:32:22 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 08:04:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 09:51:17 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 18:08:29 -0700 2008
It's filled with funny and touching anecdotes about their life together. My favorite moment is when Alice was convinced she lost her looks because she couldn't get out of a spe...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 15:53:38 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 15:53:38 -0700 2007 This is a book of romance and storytelling.
I can't quite put into words how much I loved this precious little 75-pager.
Calvin Trillin is a long-time contribute...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 21:23:35 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 21:23:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 27 20:26:45 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 20:29:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 08:28:17 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 08:42:51 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 22:19:42 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 21:26:42 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Nov 14 20:02:40 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 11:05:29 -0800 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=95961