Everybody’s Autobiography by Gertrude Stein

Everybody’s Autobiography

Gertrude Stein

Everybody’s Autobiography is among the very best of Gertrude’s writing–[it] speaks with the true and original voice of Gertrude Stein, without apparent art or bravado. –Janet Hobhouse In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody’s Autobiographyis as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a searing meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. Posing as the representative American, Stein transforms her story into history–responding to the tradition of Thoreau and Henry Adams, she writes: ‘I used to be fond of saying that America, which was supposed to be a land of success, was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early failure and a long life of later failure.’ Everybody’s Autobiographyis Stein at her most accessible and her most serious, and may yet prove to be among her most popular books.

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Details

ISBN 9781878972088
Genre Autobiography/Biography; Non-Fiction; Poetry
Publication Date 02-Jan-04
Publisher Exact Change
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 344
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Authors, American; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Women Authors, American
BookID 3645

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