Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
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.
Sarah Vowell has written for Time, Esquire, GQ, Spin, Salon, McSweeneys, The Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a contributing editor for public radio's This American Life. Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partially Cloudy Patriot are among her works. She resides in the city of New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743205405 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743205405 |
| Title | Take the Cannoli |
| Author | Sarah Vowell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Year published | 2001-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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