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If You Can't Say Something Nice By Calvin Trillin Hardcover Book 1987

If You Can't Say Something Nice By Calvin Trillin Hardcover Book 1987

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If You Can't Say Something Nice: By Author Calvin Trillin!

Vintage 1987 Hardcover book with Dust Jacket. In very good condition, tanning, 257 Pages. Publisher Ticknor & Fields.

•Title: If You Can't Say Something Nice
•Author: Calvin Trillin
•1987 - Ticknor & Fields
•Format: Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
•Pages: 257
•ISBN: 0899195318
•Condition: Very Good

Do You think it's fun to be the one who always makes the underhanded comment and passes the snide remark? Calvin Trillin asks. Well, yes. He does seem to be having a good time composing a motto for the Nebraska license plate ("A Long way across"), plotting the murder of a neighbor who talks alot about the importance of trim and gutter maintenance, and contemplating the White House Staff activities that resulted in the headline REAGAN IS TOLD OF NORWEGIAN WHALING INFRACTIONS ("We've got to tell him something").

After years of writing a hilarious column in THE NATION For the entertainment of "1200 Librarians and 8 unre constructed old Trotskyites", Trillin was syndicated in newspapers across the country. The Change didn't improve his manners. He still can't say anything Nice. What ever happened to chicken a la king? Was the real crime of Wall Street inside-traders "stealing too fast"? Could Uncle Harry be right that Columbus first stepped onto the New World in Kansas City, near what is now the corner of 11th and Walnut? Even Asking these tough questions, Trillin appears to be having fun. So Will you.
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