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Thema: Alice Toklas

Alice Babette Toklas
(* 30. April 1877; ? 7. März 1967) war eine US-amerikanische Autorin und die Lebensgefährtin der Schriftstellerin und Kunstsammlerin Gertrude Stein. In der gemeinsamen Wohnung in Paris unterhielt das Paar einen Salon, der ein bedeutendes Zentrum kulturellen Lebens war. Außer ihrer eigenen literarischen Tätigkeit war Alice B. Toklas nicht nur Gertrude Steins Geliebte, sondern auch ihre Sekretärin, Muse, Herausgeberin und Kritikerin.

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Alice B. Toklas: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

UK 2021, 368 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
HarperPerennial

When Alice B. Toklas was asked to write a memoir, she initially refused. Instead, she wrote »The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book«, a sharply written, deliciously rich cookbook memorializing meals and recipes shared by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso - and of course by Alice and Gertrude themselves. While »The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas« - penned by ... Weiterlesen

Hassan Najmi: Gertrude

English by Roger Allen. USA 2014, 283 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Interlink

As Najmi's novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator about his most famous clients, a lesbian couple - the renowned Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice Toklas, who on the recommendation of Henri Matisse hired Muhammad as their ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Weiss: Paris Was a Woman

Portraits from the Left Bank. USA 2013, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Publishers Group West

Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, »Paris Was a Woman« is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the last century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this »scrapbook« of their work - along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary - highlights the political, social, and ... Weiterlesen

Diana Souhami: Gertrude and Alice

UK/USA 2009, 300 pp., brochure, € 19.49
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907 in Paris. From that day on they were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at 27 rue de Fleurus. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso and written ... Weiterlesen

Janet Malcolm: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

USA/UK 2008, 229 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

»How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?« Janet Malcolm askes at the beginning of this literary biography. 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, the »worker bee« who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their 40 years of ... Weiterlesen

Janet Malcolm: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

USA 2007, 229 pp., hardback, € 21.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

»How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?« Janet Malcolm askes at the beginning of this literary biography. 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, the »worker bee« who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their 40 years of ... Weiterlesen

Monique Truong: The Book of Salt

USA 2003, 262 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Binh, a young gay Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by lesbian couple Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Toklas and Stein hold ... Weiterlesen

Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

UK 2001 (Reprint), 273 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

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