The Biography of Alice B. Toklas - Hardcover

Simon, Linda.

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9780385081405: The Biography of Alice B. Toklas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385081405 ISBN 13: 9780385081405

Publisher: Unknown, 1977

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Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 324 pages; Description: x, 324 p. , [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 301-313. Subjects: Toklas, Alice B. --Biography.

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"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 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 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 standards... [her story] is an emotionally stirring experience."-Washington Post Book World Washington Post Book World

About the Author:

Linda Simon, in her preface to this Bison Book edition, calls Alice B. Toklas "a woman who, through a mixture of determination and good luck, invented a new narrative for her life" at a time when options for women were few. Simon is the author of Thornton Wilder: His World (1979), Good Writing (1988), and other books. She is now working on a biography of William James.

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