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About Alice

About Alice by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2006)

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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.” read more...
 
About Alice

About Alice by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2007)

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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." read more...
 
About Alice

About Alice by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2006)

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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.” read more...
 
Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2006)

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“Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.”–New York magazineIn this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones read more...
 
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme

Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2008)

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Displaying the form that made bestsellers of Obliviously On He Sails and A Heckuva Job, tales of the Bush Administration in rhyme, Calvin Trillin trains his verse on the 2008 race for the presidency.Deciding the Next Decider is an ongoing campaign narrative in verse interrupted regularly by other read more...
 
Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco

Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2004)

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Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the “continental cuisine” palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House. What he treasures is the superb local specialty. And he will go anywhere to find one. As it happens, some of his favorite dishes can be found only in their place of read more...
 
A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme

A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2006)

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Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004 bestseller in verse, George W. Bush is still in the White House. Taking a philosophical view, Trillin has said, “We weren’t going to know whether you could bring down a presidency read more...
 
Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme

Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2004)

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Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing George Bush's rescue in the South Carolina primary by the Christian Right ("I am, when all is said read more...
 
Tepper Isn't Going Out

Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 2003)

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Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by read more...
 
Tummy Trilogy, The

Tummy Trilogy, The by Calvin Trillin (Paperback 1994)

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In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books over the next two decadesAmerican Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third read more...
 

 


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