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Calvin Trillin About Alice
Random House 1400066158 / 9781400066155 Hardcover Good
1400066158 1400066158 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out
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Calvin Trillin If You Can't Say Something Nice
New York, NY, U.S.A. Ticknor & Fields 1987 0899195318 / 9780899195315 First Printing Hardcover/Ex-Library Good
0899195318 0899195318 Good-/Good c. 1987, white/maroon bds. w/d.j., 257pp., (lt.shelf wear, corners lightly bumped, some pages creased to corners, content clean and bright, d.j. taped to bds, very lt.edge wear, mylar cover)
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Calvin Trillin Messages from My Father
New York, NY, U.S.A. Farrar Straus & Giroux 1996 0374208603 / 9780374208608 Good
0374208603 0374208603 ISBN: 0374208603 Hardcover with dustjacket, Good/Good c. 1996, white/black bds. w/d.j., illus., 117pp., (lt.shelf wear, corners bumped, text clean, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbed). Ex-Library. Biographies & Memoirs, Fathers & Sons.
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Calvin Trillin Remembering Denny
New York, NY, U.S.A. Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) 1993 0374226075 / 9780374226077 Second Printing Hardcover/Ex-Library Good
0374226075 0374226075 Good-/Good+ c. 1993, white/black bds. w/d.j., 210pp., Ex-Library. (lt.shelf wear, corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, text clean, d.j. taped to bds., very lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbing). Biographies & Memoirs. In his most personal book, Trillin ( American Stories ) poignantly investigates the life of his Yale classmate and onetime close friend Roger ''Denny'' Hansen, a Rhodes scholar, academic and State Department employee whose extraordinary promise ended in middle age with his suicide. In brief, almost pointillistic chapters, Trillin isolates the darkness in Hansen's soul. At the same time he dissects his own expectations and those of his peers, examining the influence of an elite university in the sunny 1950s. At what Trillin calls a Big Chill session, Yale classmates recall Denny's hidden insecurity and dependence on accolades, while an adult friend remembers how Hansen's high standards for himself made him a recluse. Trillin learns for the first time that Hansen was gay, which leads him to reflections on his generation's homophobia. He reconstructs how Life magazine chose to profile Hansen at their graduation in 1957, muses on the burdens of a Rhodes scholarship and explores the moralistic Hansen's ineffectiveness as a Washington bureaucrat. ''Part of what kept the issues simple is that we didn't spend a lot of time examining them,'' writes Trillin of the 1950s; here, in deceptively casual style, he redeems that indifference. BOMC selection. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In 1957 Denny Hansen had it all--a ''dazzling'' smile, a new Yale degree, an appointment as a Rhodes scholar, friends who regarded him practically as an icon, and a boundless future in an era when the sky seemed the limit for bright graduates. In 1991 he became a modern Richard Cory, taking his own life. Trillin, his Yale classmate, tries to determine what went so terribly wrong. However, in his search, we necessarily see so much more of the troubled later years than of the golden years that we ultimately lose sight of the magnitude of the change in Hansen. Expect demand where Trillin's works are popular; also, the public is always morbidly interested in fallen stars. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/92.
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Trillin, Calvin With All Disrespect/More Uncivil Liberties by Trillin, Calvin
New York Ticknor & Fields Good
p. 1985, c. 1985, First Printing, brown/black bds. w/d.j., 230pp., G/g(lt.wear to head+heel of spine+edges+corners, X-Library, d.j. taped to bds., lt.soiled)
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