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Sister Brother - Gertrude and Leo Stein (Paperback)
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Sister Brother - Gertrude and Leo Stein (Paperback)
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Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were
constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until, finally,
they spoke no more. Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans,
they lived together for almost forty years, collaborating in one of
the great artistic and literary adventures of the twentieth
century. Sister Brother tells the story of that adventure and
relationship. With a personality that drew people toward
her-regardless of what they thought of her inventive, hermetic
prose-Gertrude Stein dazzled and perplexed. Enigmatic, intelligent,
and self-absorbed, Leo also dazzled but in his own way. One of the
crucial figures in Gertrude's early years, he was the original
guiding spirit of the famed salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, which
continued for almost two decades. From her early days as a medical
student to her first days in Paris, Gertrude was passionately
driven toward the career in which she distinguished herself,
demanding appreciation as an exceptional writer who knew precisely
what she intended. This book shows how Gertrude slowly struggled
with what became a unique voice-and why her brother spurned it.
With its wealth of new and rare material, its reconstruction of
Leo's famed art collection, and its array of characters-from
Bernard Berenson to Pablo Picasso-this biography offers the first
glimpse into the smoldering sibling relationship that helped form
two of the twentieth century's most unusual figures. Brenda
Wineapple is the author of Genet: A Biography of Janet Flanner and
Hawthorne: A Life, which received the English-Speaking Union's
Ambassador Award for the Best Biography of 2003 and the Boston Book
Club's Julia Ward Howe Award. She teaches writing in the School of
the Arts at Columbia University and the MFA program at the New
School University in New York.
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