About Alice
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- Edition:
- Unabridged (Random House Audio)
- Length:
- 1 hours, 18 minutes
- File Size:
- 35 MB (1 files)
- Published:
- December 2006
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Review by Amy Monaghan, eMusic
A New Yorker writer's lean love letter to the woman he loved.
New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin is a man of many appetites. His paeans to local eats, from bagels to boudin blanc, chronicled in comic fashion in culinary collections like Feeding a Yen and The Tummy Trilogy, are the best kind of comfort food. In About Alice, he turns his pen and his rich voice to his other abiding passion, the woman with whom he shared his writing and his table for many years, his beloved wife Alice. In his books' pages, Alice, who died in 2001, may have come across as an infinitely patient person, a sitcom character who "unreasonably" kept her family to only three meals a day. But here Trillin reveals that his salty, smart, sweet spouse was a whip-smart writer, educator and, for a time, a cancer survivor. Clocking in a brisk hour and change, About Alice may seem more like an amuse bouche than a main course, but Trillin's lean love letter will leave you in tears, feeling supremely sated and wishing there was more.
New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin is a man of many appetites. His paeans to local eats, from bagels to boudin blanc, chronicled in comic fashion in culinary collections like Feeding a Yen and The Tummy Trilogy, are the best kind of comfort food. In About Alice, he turns his pen and his rich voice to his other abiding passion, the woman with whom he shared his writing and his table for many years, his beloved wife Alice. In his books' pages, Alice, who died in 2001, may have come across as an infinitely patient person, a sitcom character who "unreasonably" kept her family to only three meals a day. But here Trillin reveals that his salty, smart, sweet spouse was a whip-smart writer, educator and, for a time, a cancer survivor. Clocking in a brisk hour and change, About Alice may seem more like an amuse bouche than a main course, but Trillin's lean love letter will leave you in tears, feeling supremely sated and wishing there was more.
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"This touching tribute is sure to stir emotions." - Publishers Weekly
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