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Book Description
"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master “whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatnessContinue
Critics
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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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
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Book Details
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- English Books
- Hardcover 240 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0300125518
- ISBN-13: 9780300125511
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Pub date: Sep 27, 2007
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback
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| 9780300125511 | Hardcover | $25.00 | $19.80 | bn.com |
| $25.00 | $18.50 | The Book Depository | ||
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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)