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About Alice

Trillin, Calvin

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About Alice

Calvin Trillin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He lives in New York.

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Title of ebook: About Alice
ISBN: 9781588365781
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 275 kb
Released online for download: 12-26-2006
Author of eBook: Trillin, Calvin

About Alice

Chapter 1

Now that it’s fashionable to reveal intimate details of married life, I can state publicly that my wife, Alice, has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day.
—Alice, Let’s Eat

There was one condolence letter that made me laugh. Naturally, a lot of them made me cry. Some of those, oddly enough, were from people who had never met Alice. They had become familiar with her as a character in books and magazine pieces I’d written—light books and magazine pieces about traveling or eating or family life. Virtually all those letters began in the same way, with a phrase like “Even though I never really knew Alice. . . .” I was certain of what Alice’s response would have been. “They’re right about that,” she would have said. “They never knew me.”

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