Take the Cannoli
Stories From the New World
By Sarah Vowell
(Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 9780743205405, 224pp.)
Publication Date: April 3, 2001
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (April 2000)
Categories: Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, Women
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Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She 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. 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.
Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio's This American Life and has written for Time, Esquire, GQ, Spin, Salon, McSweeneys, The Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City.
Susan Salter ReynoldsLos Angeles Times Book ReviewSarah Vowell is a madonna of Americana.
PeopleWise, witty and refreshingly warm-hearted, Vowell's essays on American history, pop culture and her own family reveal the bonds holding together a great, if occasionally weird, nation.
Melanie RehakHarper's BazaarSarah Vowell's canny brand of humor, complaint, and cultural acuity will no doubt be heard for some time to come.
Joanna Smith RakoffSan Francisco ChronicleVowell is and will continue to be one of the more important voices of her generation.
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