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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
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Title: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Author: Calvin Trillin
ISBN: 9781400069828
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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Publisher Description:
For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place--in "The New Yorker, "in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his "deadline poetry" for "The Nation, "in comic novels like "Tepper Isn't Going Out, "in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater, and in the column "USA Today" called "simply the funniest regular column in journalism."
Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance ("My long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes") and the literary life ("The average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.")
In "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, "the author deals with such subjects as the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers ("We have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original meal") and the true story behind the Shoe Bomber: "The one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, 'I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.' " He remembers Sarah Palin with a poem called "On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok" and John Edwards with one called "Yes, I Know He's a Mill Worker's Son, but There's Hollywood in That Hair."
In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious.
Author: Calvin Trillin
ISBN: 9781400069828
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
H 1670532
Publisher Description:
For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place--in "The New Yorker, "in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his "deadline poetry" for "The Nation, "in comic novels like "Tepper Isn't Going Out, "in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater, and in the column "USA Today" called "simply the funniest regular column in journalism."
Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance ("My long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes") and the literary life ("The average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.")
In "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, "the author deals with such subjects as the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers ("We have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original meal") and the true story behind the Shoe Bomber: "The one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, 'I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.' " He remembers Sarah Palin with a poem called "On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok" and John Edwards with one called "Yes, I Know He's a Mill Worker's Son, but There's Hollywood in That Hair."
In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious.
