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Two lives : Gertrude and Alice

Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007] ©2007
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Presents an investigation of the lives and works of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
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Genre/Form: Biographie
Biographies
History
Biography
biografi
Named Person: Gertrude Stein; Alice B Toklas; Gertrude Stein; Alice B Toklas; Gertrude Stein; Alice B Toklas; Gertrude Stein; Alice B Toklas
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Janet Malcolm
ISBN: 9780300125511 0300125518 9780300143102 0300143109
OCLC Number: 122423754
Notes: Facsimile of a page of one of Stein's manuscripts printed on lining papers.
Awards: Winner of Literary Award (Biography) 2008
Winner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Nonfiction) 2008
Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Women's Memoir/Biography) 2007
Commended for Stonewall Book Award (Nonfiction) 2008
Description: 229 pages : portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Other Titles: 2 lives
Responsibility: Janet Malcolm.
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<http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/975769<\/a>> # Intellectual life<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Intangible<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Intellectual life<\/span>\"@en<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
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<http:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/5059351<\/a>> # Alice B. Toklas<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Person<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:birthDate<\/a> \"1877<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:deathDate<\/a> \"1967<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:familyName<\/a> \"Toklas<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:givenName<\/a> \"Alice B.<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Alice B. Toklas<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
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