Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling new ways to express the true essence of her subject with charming joie de vivre.

Stein considered her shorter writings to be the truest expressions of her enrapturing style. Her fascination with people and personalities can be located in expressive portraits of close friends Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Cezanne, Jean Cocteau, and Juan Gris, whilst her decades-long relationship with Alice B. Toklas is immortalised with shimmering eroticism. There are also playful meditations on her unique writing process, conveying her serious delight in meddling with conventions of grammar and composition.

Confirmed Table of Contents:

Ada
Portrait of Mabel Dodge
Matisse
Picasso
Miss Fur and Miss Skeene
Flirting at the Bon Marche
Susie Asado
Preciosilla
Sacred Emily
One
Ladies Voices
Accents in Alsace
Idem the Same
Cezanne
A Book Concluding with As A Wife Has a Cow
Van or Twenty Years Later
If I Told Him
Juan Gris
Identify a Poem
What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes
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What Happened
Jean Cocteau
A Movie
A Waterfall and Piano
Saint in Seven