Two Lives

Janet Malcolm

RRP: £18.99

Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Publication Date : 18/09/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A combination of biography and literary criticism, "Two Lives" unlocks the truth of the mystifying relationship between Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion Alice B. Toklas. 12 b/w illus.

Publisher's description:

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master 'whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness' and 'thin, plain, tense, sour' Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'.

ISBN: 9780300125511