Two Lives

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• Double trouble

  Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm 229pp, Yale, £16.99 Janet Malcolm has always had a funny sort of relationship with biography. She's never written one, or at least not the kind of thing that most of us understand by the term. Rather, sh ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Paperback of the week

  Gertrude Stein has the distinction of being a celebrated writer who is hardly ever read. Even her biographer, the formidable Janet Malcolm, confesses to finding some of her books so 'cruelly' unreadable that she resorted to cutting one up with kitche ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  It is more about the personalities of Gertude and Alice, and the people who have wrote about them.

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  Yiling said on Jun 15, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Interesting work with details on the lives of the two writers, friends and lovers

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  Lia said on Jan 20, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 240 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0300143109
• ISBN-13: 9780300143102
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Pub date: Sep 16, 2008
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover

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