Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
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Avant-garde Paris comes to life in this meticulous and loving reconstruction of the period (The New York Times Book Review) On almost every Saturday of the first half of the twentieth century Gertrude Stein would open her door to the likes of Picasso and Matisse Hemingway and Fitzgerald Cocteau and Apollinaire welcoming them into a salon alive with vivid avant-garde paintings and sparkling intellectual conversation. In Charmed Circle James R. Mellow has re-created this fascinating world and the complex woman who dominated it. His engaging narrative illuminates Steins writingnow celebrated along with the work of such literary giants as Joyce and Woolfincluding her difficult early periods which adapted cubism and abstraction to the written word. Rich with detail and insight it conveys both the serene rhythms of daily life with her devoted partner Alice B. Toklas and the radical pulse and dramatic upheavals of her exciting era. Spanning the years from 1903 when Stein first arrived in Paris to her final days at the end of the Second World War Charmed Circle is a penetrating and lively account of a writer at the heart of modernity.
