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"The man was stubborn", writes Calvin Trillin - the second most stubborn member of the Trillin family - to begin his fond, wry, and affecting memoir of his father. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who had grown up in St. Joseph and the dreams of America of someone who had been born is Russia. In Kansas City, he was a grocer, at least until he swore off the grocery business. He was given to swearing off things - coffee, tobacco, alcohol, all neckties that were not yellow in color. Presumably he had also sworn off swearing, although he was a collector of curses like "May you have an injury that is not covered by workman's compensation". Although he had a strong vision of the sort of person he wanted his son to be, his explicit advice about how to behave didn't go beyond an almost lackadaisical "You might as well be a mensch". Somehow, though, Abe Trillin's messages got through clearly. Fathers, sons, and admirers of Trillin's unerring sense of the American character will be entertained and touched by this quietly powerful memoir.
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- Title Messages from My Father: A Memoir
- Author Calvin Trillin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-06-12
- ISBN 9780374525088 / 0374525080
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.02 cm)
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Themes
- Holiday: Father's Day
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times, 08/24/1997, Page 24
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1997, Page 97
- Publishers Weekly, 05/27/1997, Page 0
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