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Three Lives Gertrude Stein

Three Lives By Gertrude Stein

Three Lives by Gertrude Stein


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Summary

Under the grey, industrial skies of Bridgepoint (Baltimore), three women live, work and love. Painting a powerful portrait of women trapped in drudgery, Stein's Three Lives is a ground-breaking portrayal of abuse and non-heteronormative sexuality, and is a searing indictment of the struggles of the working class in turn-of-the-century America.

Three Lives Summary

Three Lives by Gertrude Stein

'You see that Anna led an arduous and troubled life... Her face was worn, her cheeks were thin, her mouth drawn and firm, and her light blue eyes were very bright. Sometimes they were full of lightning and sometimes full of humour, but they were always sharp and clear.' Under the grey, industrial skies of Bridgepoint (modelled on Baltimore), three women - Anna, Melanctha and Lena - live, work and love. Painting a powerful portrait of women trapped in drudgery, Stein's Three Lives is a ground-breaking portrayal of abuse and non-heteronormative sexuality, and is a searing indictment of the struggles of the working class in turn-of-the-century America. An astonishing work that toys with style and conventions, Three Lives stands as a monument in Modernism and experimental literature, and comes from the pen of a writer whose intelligence and understanding bleeds from every page.

Three Lives Reviews

'Gertrude Stein changed the way I thought about writing autobiography because she so magnificently investigates the art and artifice of the genre.' (Deborah Levy) 'Some of the best writing ever done by an American.' (Sherwood Anderson)

About Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American writer, poet and playwright. She moved to France in 1903, where she lived with her partner Alice B. Toklas and set up a famous literary salon frequented by luminaries including Matisse, Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway. She is best known today for her memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and for her avant-garde novels Q.E.D., Fernhurst, Three Lives and Tender Buttons.

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NGR9781913724719
9781913724719
1913724719
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
New
Paperback
Renard Press Ltd
2022-05-25
240
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