The Biography of Alice B. Toklas - Linda Simon
KORTE INHOUD
'It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas, 'wife' and literary impresario of Gertrude Stein, should be the subject of a biography...and this is a good one, sensitive and lively...it's clear from this portrait that through her possessive affection she not only had a dominant influence on Stein's life but (for good or ill) on her highly idiosyncratic prose. With her acid tongue, shrewd judgment, vitality, and intense loyalty she was a fairly remarkable person in her-self' - "Publishers Weekly".'Linda Simon writes beautifully of Alice's early years in California, of her Polish-Jewish family, of her growing alienation from her surroundings and gravitation toward artists, of her awareness of the isolating burden homosexuality would force on her...entertaining, thoroughly researched. and well-written...with a clear gaze fixed on undistorted truth' - "Saturday Review". 'A study that shows Toklas as she must have been, not 'Miss Stein's obedient shadow,'...but a multifaceted and complex creature with her own tastes and stan...
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Halflinnen. Dikke hardback in goede staat. Naam op schutblad. Stofomslag scheurtjes en slijtage. Engelstalig. Geillustreerd.; 1977; First edition; Doubleday; x, 324 pagina's; Titel: The biography of Alice B. Toklas; Ref: 205203 / H24P736B
