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title: "Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice"
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# Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

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Buy Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice Illustrated by Malcolm, Janet (ISBN: 9780300143102) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Review: Five Stars - Very interesting and easy to read.
Review: Five Stars - Love this book!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 654,104 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 355 in French Historical Biographies 2,252 in Community & Culture Biographies 2,925 in Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (43) |
| Dimensions  | 13.34 x 1.91 x 19.69 cm |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 0300143109 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0300143102 |
| Item weight  | 272 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 240 pages |
| Publication date  | 1 Oct. 2008 |
| Publisher  | Yale University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by S***R on 8 April 2016*

Very interesting and easy to read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by T***M on 30 March 2016*

Love this book!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by M***N on 12 August 2012*

When I was younger there were several long gone events that I regretted missing, the long lunches at the Algonquin Hotel with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker, the parties on Long Island with J. Gatsby looking for Daisy, bumming around Europe with Hemingway, and the Paris soirees with Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. (And if someone had told me about Max's Kansas City in New York I would have run away from home to get there). The best book that I ever read on Gertrude and Alice was James Mellow's Charmed Circle, which is a standard conventional life of Stein, Toklas and their circle expatriates which included Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald and went on for nearly 40 years in all manner of conditions. There was also Stein's charming book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, a memoir as imagined by Stein of her long time partner and lover and Hemingway's Movable Feast. Janet Malcolm's book does not attempt to go over this well-trod ground. There are no stories about the banquet for Rousseau in which all the leading lights of modernism were doing homage to the grand old man of primitive art, no tales of how Picasso's portrait would one day look like Stein, the words "lost generation" are never uttered. There is no meditation on Alice's unconventional brownies recipe. Instead, Malcolm is attempting to do something different. This is mainly a biography of the reputations of Stein and Toklas and how scholarship and memoir has shifted overtime. Subjects that are not normally addressed, Stein's difficult to read works (Everyone's Autobiography and The Making of the Americans, even Three Lives and Wars I Have Seen), the relationship of the two women, with Alice playing less of quiet retiring role than previous, the way that Stein and Toklas survived World War II, and finally what happened to Alice after Gertrude, a tale that has overtones of The Aspern Papers. This is not the sort of book that one would recommend as the first biography one should read on Stein, the author presumes that the reader is well versed in the comings at 27 Rue de Fleurus and willing to go a little further. What emerges is just how unsure Stein was when she arrived in Paris and for many years afterwards, just how instrumental Toklas was in her development as a writer and how much she was an equal partner in Gertrude's life. If anything Malcolm, by her focus on Alice Toklas, provides a more well-rounded account of their relationship than was previously understood. Malcolm's short book incorporates not only the latest in academic scholarship when addressing the writing that so engaged Stein for many years, but also provides a fuller picture than I have otherwise seen on Alice's life after Gertrude's passing. For such a short book, the subjects emerge far more human and believable than I have seen in previous works.

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