Two Lives by Janet Malcolm - ISBN: 9780522854367
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A biography of two of the most interesting literary women to emerge in the early 20th century. Gertrude Stein, American-born, moved to France aged 28, where she met her life long partner, Alice B Toklas.

Two Lives

Gertrude and Alice

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  • Paperback

    238 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2007

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Summary

Two Lives is Janet Malcolm’s stunning portrait of a legendary couple- Gertrude Stein, the modernist master, and Alice B Toklas, the ‘worker bee’ who ministered to Stein’s needs throughout their forty-year expatriate ‘marriage’. As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple’s charmed life in a village in Vichy France her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. ‘The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties,’ she writes.The portrait of their relationship that…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522854367
ISBN-10:0522854362
Author:Janet Malcolm
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:238
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 October 2007
Weight:226g
Dimensions:205mm x 138mm x 25mm
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About The Author

Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm is the author of The Journalist and the Murderer, The Silent Woman- Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and Reading Chekhov, among other books. She writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books and lives in New York City.

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