Too Soon to Tell by Trillin, Calvin; Trillin - 1996

New York: Warner Books. Good 1996. Softcover. Cov fold & slight edgewear; tite, white, never read or written-in. Mail SAMEDAY! ; 0.80 x 7.94 x 5.26""; 292 pages; Another collection of Trillin's short pieces has hit the streets, and he just gets better and better. A Midwesterner in his soul but a New Yorker in fact, Trillin's comic take on '90s life demonstrates his perfect pitch for the absurd again and again in these short and intelligent essays. From Booklist: Is there anything Trillin can't write about? Here, in his latest collection of hilarious, short, and spicy essays, he has his say on such far-flung topics as geckos, Russia, Louisiana hot sauce, the cold war, Iowa, monkfish, why Saudi women aren't allowed to drive, rock music, presidents, embezzlers, slide rules, car phones, slang, peanuts, and family life. Trillin's columns are like magic tricks; he distracts us with one hand, while pulling a bouquet of flowers from behind our ear with the... .