Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family

by Linda Wagner-Martin

Book Overview

One version of Gertrude Stein's life (1874-1946)--the story of the idiosyncratic art collector and writer, ruling the expatriates in Paris with her immense personal power--has been told so often that it has become a piece of Americana, burnished to a high gloss through repetition. Inspired by extensive original research, Linda Wagner-Martin breaks with that tradition in this major new biography. Here we find Gertrude Stein as we have never seen her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521696
• ISBN13: 9780813521695
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"