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About Alice

"Humorist Calvin Trillin always found a muse in his beloved wife Alice, who passed away in 2001. Trillin weaves a touching tribute to his late wife that focuses on her beautiful life and not her tragic passing."--Container.

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  • ""Humorist Calvin Trillin always found a muse in his beloved wife Alice, who passed away in 2001. Trillin weaves a touching tribute to his late wife that focuses on her beautiful life and not her tragic passing."--Container."@en
  • "A remarkably moving and memorable tribute to Alice Trillin, who figured prominently and indelibly in Calvin Trillin's books, and in his life. Alice was a beautiful, brilliant, and beloved wife. She died all too soon, coincidentally on 9/11. Since then, Calvin Trillin has been working on a tribute. It was finally published in The New Yorker in March, and immediately became one of the most talked about pieces in recent years. Calvin then expanded the article into this persuasive and poignant portrait, which is not about grief, but rather a celebration of a remarkably rewarding and remunerative life. It has left listeners in tears, unable, for a while, to shake the experience from the mind. Becausebeyond anything elsethis is truly a love story, something all too rare today."@en
  • "In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who would only let her family eat 3 meals a day, and insisted that you had to go to every performance of your child's school play. This is Calvin's loving portrait to his wife, Alice Trillin."@en
  • "It's a remarkably moving and memorable tribute to Alice Trillin. Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party in December of l963."@en
  • "A remarkably moving and memorable tribute to Alice Trillin, who figured prominently and indelibly in Calvin Trillin's books, and in his life. Alice was a beautiful, brilliant, and beloved wife. She died all too soon, coincidentally on 9/11. Since then, Calvin Trillin has been working on a tribute. It was finally published in The New Yorker in March, and immediately became one of the most talked about pieces in recent years. Calvin then expanded the article into this persuasive and poignant portrait, which is not about grief, but rather a celebration of a remarkably rewarding and remunerative life. It has left listeners in tears, unable, for a while, to shake the experience from the mind. Because - beyond anything else - this is truly a love story, something all too rare today."@en
  • "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--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.""@en
  • "In a tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the author celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in his life."@en

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