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Two lives ; Gertrude and Alice / Janet Malcolm

By:

Malcolm, Janet

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press , 2007Description: 229 p. : illus. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780300125511

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DDC classification:

818.5209 MAL

Summary: "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. 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." As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	818.5209 MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non fiction		017715

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"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. 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." As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth.

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