Travels With Alice - Hardcover

Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899199100 ISBN 13: 9780899199108

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, 1989

Synopsis

Trillin, Calvin, Travels with Alice

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Review:

Calvin Trillin goes through life one step behind his appetite. He says he's just a Big Hungry Boy from the Midwest, but he's also one of the funniest American writers around, writing a palate pilgrimage through Europe and the Caribbean, where Trillin fantasizes of an Italian West Indies island of Santo Prosciutto "whose steep hills are green with garlic plants." Trillin gives free play to other obsessions (like taureaux piscine), but most of the travels are happily fueled by thoughts of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

From the Back Cover:

Here Calvin Trillin defends Sicilian drivers from the charge of unpredictability ("they can be counted on to pass") and elucidates the mysteris of taureaux piscine ("if you and the bull are in the pool at the same time, you win") and wonders at mealtime in the Caribbean why there are no Italian West Indies--Santo Prosciutto, I.W.I. His traveling companions are his two daughters and his wife, Alice, referred to in Italy as "the principesa," he says, because "I found it improved the service at the hotels."

About this edition

• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0899199100
• ISBN 13: 9780899199108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 195