Travels With Alice

by Trillin, Calvin

• ISBN13: 9780374526009
• ISBN10: 0374526001
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-23
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and skip the Grand Tour in favor of swimming holes, table soccer, and taureaux piscine. In Paris, they spend a day on the Champs- Elyseacute;es comparing Freetime's "le Hitburger" to McDonald's Big Mac. In Spain, Trillin wonders whether he will run out of Spanish "the way someone might run out of flour or eggs." Filled with Trillin's characteristic humor,Travels with Aliceis the perfect book for summer travelers.

Author Biography

Calvin Trillin is the author of twenty books, including Family Man (FSG, 1998) and Messages from My Father (FSG, 1996). He writes a weekly column for Time and a weekly poem for The Nation. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Travels with Sukey	1	(12)
Defying Mrs. Tweedie	13	(13)
Hanging Around in Uzes	26	(15)
Damp in the Afternoon	41	(17)
For Queen and Fritter	58	(12)
Prix du Hamburger	70	(12)
The Last Babyfoot	82	(15)
Full Basket	97	(11)
Full Italian Basket	108	(10)
The Playing Fields of Mott Street	118	(11)
A Woman's Place	129	(12)
Abigail y Yo	141	(17)
Gelati Fever	158	(13)
Beach Picnic	171	(12)
Special Occasion	183