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Two Lives Gertrude and Alice 9780300143102 ~ The best book that I ever read on Gertrude and Alice was James Mellows Charmed Circle which is a standard conventional life of Stein Toklas and their circle expatriates which included Henri Rousseau Matisse Picasso Hemingway and Fitzgerald and went on for nearly 40 years in all manner of conditions
Two Lives Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm ~ Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B Toklas were fascinating people in so many arenas Janet Malcolm is insightful and excellent in her analysis not just of the lives of these two but also their writing and the scholars who have spent decades studying them Malcolms book is deep and delightful
Two Lives Yale University Press ~ Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B Toklass legendary 40year partnership with the brilliant modernist Gertrude Stein in Two Lives clearing up a few mysteries along the way—including how two Jewish women were able to survive World War II in their provincial French château with the help of a Vichy collaborator—
Two Lives NPR ~ September 18 2007 • Fresh Air s book critic reviews Two Lives Gertrude and Alice Janet Malcoms joint biography of Gertrude Stein and her longtime companion Alice B Toklas Toklas and Stein
Customer reviews Two Lives Gertrude and Alice ~ Subjects that are not normally addressed Steins difficult to read works Everyones Autobiography and The Making of the Americans even Three Lives and Wars I Have Seen the relationship of the two women with Alice playing less of quiet retiring role than previous the way that Stein and Toklas survived World War II and finally what happened to Alice after Gertrude a tale that has overtones of The Aspern Papers
Two Lives Gertrude and Alice The Barnes Noble Review ~ The lives of Gertrude Stein and her lover of 40 years Alice B Toklas have hardly been underserved by biographers but then that is exactly why they are of interest to Malcolm What begins as a meandering glimpse of Stein and Toklas’s Parisian existence ultimately becomes a meditation on the
Two Lives Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm Yale Univ ~ The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them This war as Malcolm learned sometimes flared into bitter combat Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism Even the most hermetic of Stein’s writings are works of submerged autobiography” Malcolm writes
Two Lives Gertrude and Alice PEN America ~ Two Lives Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm June 3 2008 It is generally agreed that without Alice Toklas Stein might not have had the will to go on writing what for many years almost no one had any interest in reading
Two Lives Book Johnson County Library BiblioCommons ~ In her latest book Janet Malcolm sets out to discover how two Jewish lesbians influential writer Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B Toklas survived in France during World War II As with Malcolm’s earlier works this book contains an abundance of wonderful detours as when the author attempts to meet with an elusive Stein scholar
Two Lives Gertrude and Alice Janet Malcolm Books ~ Portrait of a Marriage One would not naturally pair Janet Malcolm a clear analytic writer with Gertrude Stein and her modernist shenanigans And in “Two Lives” her fascinating new study of Stein and Alice B Toklas Malcolm seems to have no great love for Stein’s more experimental writing
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