Elizabeth Maguire: Fenimore

Dt.v. Christel Dormagen. D 2008, 256 S., geb., € 18.50
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Mit 40 lernt Contance Fenimore Woolson, die Nichte des US-Autors Fenimore Cooper, den berühmten, schwulen Schriftsteller Henry James kennen. Bislang hatte sie ihre kranke Mutter gepflegt und die Familie mit den Tantiemen ihrer Kurzgeschichten unterstützt. Nach dem Tod der Mutter ist sie nun frei und schifft sich nach Europa ein. Dort trifft sie auf James und freundet sich mit ihm ... Weiterlesen

Virginia S. Carr: Paul Bowles

A Life. USA 2004, 411 pp., hardback, € 31.30
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Paul Bowles - novelist, composer, expatriate, rebel, and bisexual - grew up in Jamaica, N.Y., a precocious child who could read and was writing stories by an early age. At 18, he embarked on an artistic journey that led him all over the world. Bowles entered the vibrant art and literary world of the late 1920s as a poet and ... Weiterlesen

Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

UK 2001 (Reprint), 273 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
A insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and »it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning«. Picasso was there with »his high whinnying Spanish giggle«, as were Cezanne ... Weiterlesen

Samuel M. Steward: Murder Is Murder Is Murder

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Alice Toklas sees the father of their gardener confronting an unpleasant farmer while the latter is plowing. She goes into the house to tell her lover Gertrude Stein of the altercation, but when the two get back to the garden, only the farmer is still in sight, plowing as before. But their gardener's father does not return home that night ... Weiterlesen