Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas
On tissue-thin paper in a tiny, often undecipherable hand, Alice Toklas described her daily life in Paris in absorbing detail, like a latter-day Madame de Sévigné. Here are shrewd, witty observations on some of the most interesting artists, musicians, and writers of the twentieth century: Thornton Wilder, Carl Van Vechten, Edith Sitwell, Anita Loos, Cecil Beaton, Janet Flanner, Bennett Cerf, among others. There are stories about Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Juan Gris, Cocteau, and Sartre--all revealing a sharp eye that was as much a part of Alice as her devotion to Gertrude and her passion for recipes and gardening.In preparing this collec…
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Weitere Autoren: Harrison, Gilbert A. (Solist) / Burns, Edward (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-87140-131-1
- EAN: 9780871401311
- Produktnummer: 3350994
- Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1982
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Masse: H18.6 cm x B12.5 cm x D2.0 cm 336 g
- Gewicht: 336
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