A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein\'s most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works.
Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision.
There are also playful meditations on her unique writing process, conveying her serious delight in meddling with conventions of grammar and composition.
Confirmed Table of Contents:AdaPortrait of Mabel DodgeMatissePicassoMiss Fur and Miss SkeeneFlirting at the Bon MarcheSusie AsadoPreciosillaSacred EmilyOneLadies VoicesAccents in AlsaceIdem the SameCezanneA Book Concluding with As A Wife Has a CowVan or Twenty Years LaterIf I Told HimJuan GrisIdentify a PoemWhat Does She See When She Shuts Her EyesAdvertismentsWhat HappenedJean CocteauA MovieA Waterfall and PianoSaint in Seven.
Toklas is immortalised with shimmering eroticism.
Her fascination with people and personalities can be located in expressive portraits of close friends Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Cezanne, Jean Cocteau, and Juan Gris, whilst her decades-long relationship with Alice B.
A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling new ways to express the true essence of her subject with charming joie de vivre.
Stein considered her shorter writings to be the truest expressions of her enrapturing style.
A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein\'s most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works.
Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision
