Can I read About Alice on EtoBox?

About Alice by Calvin Trillin is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

What is About Alice about?

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's  Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin . 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.” Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page–his 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.” “You have never again been as funny as you were that night,” Alice would say, twenty or thirty yea

Who reads About Alice?

Author

Calvin Trillin

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588365781

Category

self-help

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (5,384 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13