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The making of Americans : being a history of a family's progress / Gertrude Stein ; foreword by William H. Gass ; introduction by Steven Meyer

By:

Stein, Gertrude, (, 1874-1946)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press , 1995Description: 925 p. : 1 illus. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781564780881

Subject(s):

Immigrants -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction

DDC classification:

FIC STE

LOC classification:

PS3537.T323 M3 1995

Summary: In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC STE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		039751

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In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.

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