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| Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater | 
 enlarge | Author: Calvin Trillin
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 234198
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0812978064
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780812978063
ASIN: 0812978064
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Trillin is my favorite author - Alice is my favorite subject... July 22, 2008
In this book, his quirkyness really comes to the fore. I cannot get enough of him!
 Stopped reading it April 5, 2008
I was really excited to read this book from all the great reviews I had read but did not enjoy it. I guess what I didn't like was his writing style which I found a bit stuffy and formal and the stories he talked about weren't really all that interesting. I got half way through and thought, "Forget it" and put it away, not likely to go back.
Calvin Trillin's "Alice, Let's Eat" February 11, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is another wonderful book from the witty and perceptive Mr. Trillin. I heartily recommend it.
eat, drink and love Alice January 4, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Calvin Trillin is my favorite food writer because he is so darned funny. He wrote this book in 1976. At the time, his beloved wife Alice had just been operated on for lung cancer. There is no trace of grim sorrow in this wonderful book, just zest for good food and love for Alice.
This book was just re-issued in conjunction with Trillin's remembrance of Alice called "About Alice." She died in 2001. Read "Alice, Let's Eat" first. Get to know her. Then read "About Alice."
Trillin is a great writer. The first book will make you laugh. "About Alice" will bring you a sad smile. What a remarkable woman. Such a loss. Yet, a life well lived.
My favorite line in "Alice, Let's Eat" is when Trillin is in Owensboro, Kentucky looking for the best barbecued mutton. The waitress tells him that "we have people in here from all over...we had a Puerto Rican in here once."
Read both books. You'll be glad that you did.
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