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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography, criticism, and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is modernist master Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." As Malcolm pursues the mystery of the couple's charmed life in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: September 27, 2007

ISBN: 0300125518

ISBN 13: 9780300125511

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography, criticism, and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is modernist master Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." As Malcolm pursues the mystery of the couple's charmed life in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: September 27, 2007

ISBN: 0300125518

ISBN 13: 9780300125511

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