The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
Title:
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Author:
Gertrude Stein
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
272 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780141185361
EAN:
9780141185361
Classifications:
Literature: history and criticism
Weight (g):
322
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 137 x 17
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Price:£9.07
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Description
'Buttonholes the reader with its informality, its unhurried rhythms, deadpan humour and acerbic remarks'Frances Spalding, Sunday TimesFor Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying Spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me'. A light-hearted entertainment, this is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by American in Paris.With an Introduction by Thomas Fensch
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