2007, ISBN: 0300125518

[EAN: 9780300125511], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Yale University Press], BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, Advanced Uncorrected Page Proof in paperback. Bright, clean & tight ARC copy, unread, in FINE condition. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. "'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 fatness' and 'thin, plain, tense, sour' Alice B. Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage.' As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. 'The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties,' she writes. The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat. TWO LIVES is also a work of literary criticism. 'Even the most hermetic of [Stein's] writings are works of submerged autobiography,' Malcolm writes. 'The key of 'I' will not unlock the door to their meaning---you need a crowbar for that---but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion.' Whether unpacking the accessible Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein 'solves the koan of autobiography,' or wrestling with The Making of Americans, a masterwork of 'magisterial disorder,' Malcolm is stunningly perceptive." [publisher's copy] Pristine Advanced Reader's Copy w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & bright, unmarked pages. "Janet Malcolm is among the most intellectually provocative of authors, able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."---David Lehman. "Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography."---Christopher Benfey. Collectible ARC, no jacket as issued., Books

2007, ISBN: 0300125518

[EAN: 9780300125511], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Yale University Press, United States], JANET MALCOLM TWO LIVES GERTRUDE AND ALICE, '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 fatness' and 'thin, plain, tense, sour' Alice B. Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'. As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. 'The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties', she writes.The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat.Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism. 'Even the most hermetic of Stein's writings are works of submerged autobiography', Malcolm writes. 'The key of I will not unlock the door to their meaning - you need a crowbar for that - but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion'. Whether unpacking the accessible Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein 'solves the koan of autobiography', or wrestling with The Making of Americans, a masterwork of 'magisterial disorder', Malcolm is stunningly perceptive. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books

2007, ISBN: 0300125518

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[EAN: 9780300125511], Near Fine, [PU: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut], LITERARY BIOGRAPHY; WORLD WAR II; FRANCE; LESBIANS, Jacket, First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 229 clean, unmarked pages/index Size: 12 vo, Books

2007, ISBN: 9780300125511

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 229 clean, unmarked pages/index. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by B/W Photos. 12 vo., Yale University Press, 2007, 4

2007, ISBN: 0300125518

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[EAN: 9780300125511], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Yale, New Haven, CT], BIOGRAPHY-BARN, Jacket, A tight, bright edition. DJ is colorful, lightly rubbed & soiled from handling. Boards straight & sharp, rubbed along bottom; binding firm; pages clean., Books