Pat's review
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
by Janet Malcolm
Pat's review
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Pat's review
rating:
recommended for: anyone
Thjis is a small book and, certainly, not definitive. However, I found that, while I thought I knew of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, I really knew nothing much about either of them. By no means is this a definitive biography. However, I had never realized that the two had stayed in France through World War II, which should have ended up with them in a Nazi prison camp considering both their Judaism and their lesbianism, but somehow did not. Malcolm also provides a picture of Gertrude Stein that is rather endearing in a childish sort of way. Anyway, it was a thoroughly enjoyable book and I learned a lot from it.
