num_pages: 219
description: 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.Home movies --Shooting Dad --Music lessons --The end is near, nearer, nearest --Post cards --Take the cannoli --Vindictively American --These little town blues --Chelsea girl --Michigan and Wacker --Species-on-species abuse --Obituaries --What I see when I look at the face on the $20 bill --Ixnay on the my way --Mix tapes --Thanks for the Memorex --Drive through please --Your dream, my nightmare --Dark circles --American goth
language: English
title: Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
titlecomplete: Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
genres: Humor, Essays, Biography, History, Autobiography, Politics, Comedy, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Memoir
ratings_count: 15254
publisher: SIMON AND SCHUSTER.