THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS [Signed by Stein and Toklas]
by Stein, Gertrude
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Robert H. Fleming spent 35 years as a newspaper, radio and television reporter before joining the White House staff in 1966 and became deputy press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and chief of the ABC News Washington bureau. He was one of four network correspondents who participated in the first of the 1960 radio-television debates between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. 1351649. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
'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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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1351649
- Title
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS [Signed by Stein and Toklas]
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- The Literary Guild
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Writing the Self, American Literature, Books by Women
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