Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

by Sarah Vowell
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

by Sarah Vowell

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Overview

A wickedly funny collection of personal essays from popular NPR personality Sarah Vowell.

Hailed by Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," Vowell has an irresistible voice -- caustic and sympathetic, insightful and double-edged -- that has attracted a loyal following for her magazine writing and radio monologues on This American Life.

While tackling subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history, these autobiographical tales are written with a biting humor, placing Vowell solidly in the tradition of Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker. Vowell searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town's favorite son, Frank Sinatra. She goes under cover of heavy makeup in an investigation of goth culture, blasts cannonballs into a hillside on a father-daughter outing, and maps her family's haunted history on a road trip down the Trail of Tears.

Take the Cannoli is an eclectic tour of the New World, a collection of alternately hilarious and heartbreaking essays and autobiographical yarns.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439126516
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 12/17/2013
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 750,226
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio's This American Life and has written for Time, Esquire, GQ, Spin, Salon, McSweeneys, The Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

December 27, 1969

Place of Birth:

Muskogee, Oklahoma

Education:

B.A., Montana State University, 1993; M.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996
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