The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master "whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness" and "thin, plain, tense, sour" Alice B. Toklas's legendary 40-year partnership with the brilliant modernist Gertrude Stein in Two Lives, clearing up a few mysteries along the way-including how two Jewish women were able to survive World War II in their provincial French ch'teau with the help of a Vichy collaborator."- Vogue "Shrewd, humane, and beautifully written."- John Gross, Wall Street Journal "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. Toklas "Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B.
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