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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, by Janet Malcom

Regular price $5.99

"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography, criticism, and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is modernist master Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." As Malcolm pursues the mystery of the couple's charmed life in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. 

Used. Good condition. Some wear and tear. Minor shelf wear to the bottom of the book. Minor damage to the front and back covers and the corners of the book. Medium damage to the spine of the book. Price marked in pencil.