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by Gertrude Stein

Vovers scuffed. Ends of backstrip frayed. Bookplate. No Jacket.

Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Essays

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1928

About the author

Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.

Reviews

[Franklin · Rating 4 out of 5]

First Stein, great. Like the skeleton of meaning, structure broken down to a frame work. At times very funny, the bluntness of modern speech, the fragmentation to come. Will be returning sporadically.

[Audra · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't entirely care for this when I first picked it up, then I discovered that it is actually quite good when read aloud. The word play/repetition is too easy to lose track of when reading silently. I'd love to hear it on tape!

[kazure007 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this book up at Willard Library with other 'discarded' books. Might be way outdated and unheard of but, I thought it looked very interesting.