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Title: Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1933
Paperback, 1990
Reinforced Hardcover, 1990
Hardcover, 1993
Prebinding, 1999

Synopsis
Gertrude Stein writes about herself from the point of view of her partner, Alice B. Toklas. In a tone that is at once conversational, revealing, witty, and gossipy, Stein exposes a generation of writers and artists who comprised her salon in Paris, including Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald, Louis Bromfield, Sherwood Anderson, and James Joyce.

Details
Series:             World Cultural Heritage Library
Language:        English

Size
Length:        150 Pages



Industry Reviews
"Choosing a style meant to register on every page the speaking voice of Alice Toklas and written from a view assumed to be Alice's, Gertrude put down the anecdotal history of their long life together....She wrote to be understood unequivocally, and what she wanted to be understood was, first and last, herself. The result was a spectacular best seller, 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas', which inevitably brought her into the lecture halls of the United States and imposed upon her name celebrity of such proportions that her eminence on the American scene was for a time shared only by gangsters, baseball players and movie stars."
"[Upon its publication,] Gertrude Stein stepped onto the platform of international celebrity, [romanticizing] the Paris she had shared with Leo while excluding him from her memory of it..."


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and it was written by Gertrude Stein. This edition of Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is September 2009 and it has a suggested retail price of $59.95. There are 150 pages in the book and it was published by Intl Business Pubns USA. The 10 digit ISBN is 1438793561 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781438793566. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.