Too Soon To Tell

by Calvin Trillin

Overview

Too Soon To Tell reveals Trillin at his barbed and irrepressible best. His short takes send us back to contemporary life refreshed and delighted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374529864
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	308
Sales rank:	973,870
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Calvin Trillin is the author of many 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.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

December 5, 1935

Place of Birth:

Kansas City, Missouri

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1957

Editorial Reviews

This collection of amiable satire draws from both Trillin's syndicated column and his writings for the New Yorker. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Every few years, Trillin gathers a bunch of his syndicated columns on anything and everything and converts them into a book. This is his fifth such collection. It is difficult to find anything new or particularly illuminating to say about Trillin. In this book, readers will discover precisely what they would expect from past acquaintance: wit, spiced with a tang of tolerant cynicism; a chuckly sort of humor rather than a guffawing one; a purged prose in which the inessential is resolutely excluded; and little in the way of subject matter to which he will not give at least a flying salute. A sturdy package job that makes for good reading. Recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/95.]-A.J. Anderson, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston

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