About Alice by Calvin Trillin

About Alice by Calvin Trillin is a 78-page hardcover published by Random House, New York.  Copyright 2006.  There is small markings of pencil to the dust jacket and inside end paper.  Else, the pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is tight. Book Summary In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, Alice 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 country will come and take the child."  Now five years after her death, he 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." 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." 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."  ISBN:  978-1-4000-6615-5