Two Lives
Gertrude and Alice
$52.46
- Paperback
238 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2007
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522854367 |
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| 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: | 25mm x 138mm x 205mm |
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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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