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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [Paperback] Stein, Gertrude

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [Paperback] Stein, Gertrude

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [Paperback] Stein, Gertrude

by Stein, Gertrude

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Vintage, 1990-03-17. Paperback. Good. 1933 Harcourt Brace hard cover - 1st edition 2nd printing - no dust jacket - dust jacket items taped inside cover - webbing showing at front leaf - minor wear to edge of cover at binding - tanning to page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy

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'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alice B. Toklas. The book, an immediate bestseller, guaranteed them both a place in history. An account of their life together in Paris before, during, and after World War I, it is full of the atmosphere of the changing life of the city and of idiosyncratic glimpses of such figures as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, and other luminaries and aspirants who were their close friends. But at the center of the narrative there is always the titanic figure of Gertrude Stein, the self-proclaimed 'first-class genius' who some dismissed as the 'Mother Goose of Montparnasse,' presiding over her celebrated residence-salon-art gallery at 27, rue de Fleurus. William Troy remarked about her: 'It is not flippant to say that if she had not come to exist . . . it would be necessary to invent Miss Gertrude Stein.'

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Title
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [Paperback] Stein, Gertrude
Author
Stein, Gertrude
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Paperback
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ISBN 10
067972463X
ISBN 13
9780679724636
Publisher
Vintage
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published
1990-03-17

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