A novel by Vietnamese American about the taste of exile.

An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' 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'.

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, but was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. This book is a collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature.

Presents the author's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s. Looking back at his younger self, and at the other writers who shared Paris with him - like James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein - this title recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.

'Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened. There were dogs in the house but they were no bother. Listen carefully.' In the spring of 1933 Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were living in their country house at Bilignin, France. With money earned from the best-selling 'Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' they installed ...

The American writer Gertrude Stein lived in Paris from 1903. With her brother Leo she acted as patron for a number of soon-to-be famous artists, most notably Pablo Picasso. First published in 1940, this is her memoir of those times.

A collection of poems about London which is suitable for: the student abroad for a semester, the armchair traveler, or the critical reader of poetry. It conveys a sense that London is a place of exile and transplantation, a protean site of history, projection, culture, and personal drama.

An original exploration of modernist authors' fascination with the everyday.

Offers a collection of memoirs by twenty people who knew Gertrude Stein. This title provides details to our view of Stein as a writer and woman. It covers the entire span of her career: from her time as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College to her life as a writer in Paris from 1903 through 1946.

Rendered by women artists and writers, these intimate portraits illuminate influential women. Writings include Liv Ullman speaking of Anne Frank, Gloria Steinham on Marilyn Monroe, and celebrations of other women such as Amelia Earhart, Virginia Woolf, and Ella Fitzgerald.

In 1928, the nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped an overbearing father and the dreariness of North American university life for the wilder shores of the Montparnasse, the haunt of geniuses from Modigliani and Brancusi to Hemingway and Man Ray, not to mention a legendarily limitless source of sex and booze. He remained there for more than a year, until his money ran out and his health failed, ..

This new one-volume anthology balances the expansive, inclusive approach of the two-volume 'Heath' with the unique, practical demands of teaching a one-term survey of American literature.