ABOUT ALICE: Calvin Trillin: Random House: Nonfiction: 78 pages
In this brief volume, Calvin Trillin, the well-known staff writer for The New Yorker, presents a touching tribute to his wife Alice, who died at age 63 in 2001. Appearing in Trillin’s previous humorous works, Alice was familiar to the author’s audiences, but in this latest work, Trillin writes in a more serious fashion, recalling Alice’s battle with lung cancer, her work as an educator, and her role as a wife and mother. Based on a 12-page essay, “Alice, Off the Page,” previously published in The New Yorker, this book is a sincere, but brief, memoir of love.
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