| Allan Stein Contributor(s): Stadler, Matthew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802136621 ISBN-13: 9780802136626 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, "Allan Stein" follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.01" W x 7.26" (0.55 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the teacher travels to Paris under an assumed name -- that of his best friend, Herbert. In Paris, Herbert becomes enchanted by Stephane, a fifteen-year-old boy. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, Herbert is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity. |