BOOK REVIEW: Alice and Calvin Trillin, a love story

From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: January 7, 2007| Author: Fred Grimm | Copyright information

The prose of Calvin Trillin, witty and light as gossamer, has been harnessed to a sorrow profound enough for Dostoyevsky.

The great American satirist writes of his epic love and epic loss in "About Alice" but in the same wry style familiar to readers of The New Yorker and The Nation, where for 40 years he has contributed essays, often humorous, and poetry, often hilarious, about politics, murder, urban living, family life and adventurous eating. But this book is about Alice Stewart Tri...

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