Baby Precious Always Shines
Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
by Kay Turner; Gertrude Stein
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Editions of Baby Precious Always Shines
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher St Martins Pr |
Date 1999 |
Price $10.47 |
 Used - Acceptable |
Publisher Notes
Off and on, during the entire period they were together, Gertrude and Alice wrote each other little love notes. Calling her "wifey" and most often addressing her as "baby precious," Stein scribbled her love for Toklas in quick moments of unselfconscious desire, notes that are small but significant testimonies to her long-lived love. And on occasion, Toklas penned or typed letters back to her "husband."
These notes are brief, mantra-like enticements: tender, beseeching, caring and confessing, funny and game, sexually-charged and sincere, quotidian and queer, but always passionate. Each one marks the pleasures--infrequently, the pains--of married love. When fitted together, the notes create a tantalizing mosaic of a marriage between two women that was built to last.
Media Reviews
"For scholars of Stein, the giddy wordplay of the notes illuminates her previously published work as well as the details and desires of her life....Though it is somewhat jarring to adjust one's perception of Gertrude Stein to include her alter ego Mr. Cuddle Wuddle, the effort provides many warm examples of her genius and her heart."
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