Staying On Alone: Letters Of Alice B. Toklas
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A rich and intimate work of epistolary nonfiction, Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas chronicles the final chapter of one of the twentieth century's most remarkable literary lives, as Toklas writes candidly from Paris in the years following the death of her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein. Edited by Edward Burns, the collection presents over four hundred letters written between 1946 and 1967, offering an unfiltered window into Toklas's sharp wit, fierce loyalty, and quiet grief as she navigated old age, poverty, and the preservation of Stein's legacy. The letters illuminate the vibrant world of modernist Paris from the inside, with Toklas corresponding with luminaries such as Thornton Wilder, Virgil Thomson, and Picasso, her voice by turns acerbic, tender, and deeply humane. What emerges is a portrait of extraordinary resilience and devotion, as Toklas transforms personal correspondence into an inadvertent memoir of an era that had largely passed her by. For readers of literary biography and modernist history, this collection stands as an indispensable and deeply moving document.
Author: Alice B. Toklas
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Angus & Robertson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A rich and intimate work of epistolary nonfiction, Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas chronicles the final chapter of one of the twentieth century's most remarkable literary lives, as Toklas writes candidly from Paris in the years following the death of her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein. Edited by Edward Burns, the collection presents over four hundred letters written between 1946 and 1967, offering an unfiltered window into Toklas's sharp wit, fierce loyalty, and quiet grief as she navigated old age, poverty, and the preservation of Stein's legacy. The letters illuminate the vibrant world of modernist Paris from the inside, with Toklas corresponding with luminaries such as Thornton Wilder, Virgil Thomson, and Picasso, her voice by turns acerbic, tender, and deeply humane. What emerges is a portrait of extraordinary resilience and devotion, as Toklas transforms personal correspondence into an inadvertent memoir of an era that had largely passed her by. For readers of literary biography and modernist history, this collection stands as an indispensable and deeply moving document.