About Alice

First Edition, 1st printing. 78pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "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 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.' [] 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.'" [jacket copy] "Avoiding expressions of grief, Trillin unveils a straightforward, honest portrait of their marriage and family life in this slim volume, opening with the suggestion that he had previously mischaracterized Alice when he wrote her into 'stories that were essentially sitcoms.' Looking back on their first encounter, he then focuses on her humor, her beauty, her 'child's sense of wonderment,' her relationship with her daughters and her concern for others. Trillin's 12-page 'Alice, Off the Page' was published earlier this year in the New Yorker, and his expansion of his original essay into this touching tribute is certain to stir emotions."--Publishers Weekly. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new, handsome jacket. Quite presentable.…