| Gertrude Stein's America Contributor(s): Stein, Gertrude (Author), Harrison, Gilbert A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0871401630 ISBN-13: 9780871401632 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 814.52 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.55" W x 8.23" (0.34 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The groundbreaking writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was intensely American, though she lived most of her life in France. She returned only once to the United States, having left it at the age of twenty-nine, yet she never lost her plain American accent and manner nor her ardor for the United States. Stein approached her country with an appreciation akin to discovery. She wrote about it all--railroad stations, mailboxes, cities, farms, five-and-dime stores, drugstores, the food, the landscape, the speech, the ideas. She wrote, too, about Americans she met in France, the writers and artists who flocked there in the twenties and early thirties, the doughboys of World War I, the GIs of World War II, and Americans she met when she came home briefly in 1934-35. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stein, Gertrude: - Gertrude Stein, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1874, is a renowned American writer, poet, and art collector. The author of more than a dozen books and countless works of criticism, Stein died in France in 1946. |