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- catalog abstract "This is the first paperback edition of one of Stein's most revealing novels. Written in 1925-26 (but not published until 1958), it is Stein's midcareer assessment of herself, her writing, and her relationships, composed in the unique style for which she is celebrated. In place of a traditional narrative, Stein explores the nature of narrative, its possibilities, the various genres (historical novels, the novel of manners, adventure stories) available to the writer, the conventions of novel-writing, and the novelist's relation to her materials. In a sense, the novel is about "preparing a novel" (the subject of chap. 50), about everything that goes through a writer's head as she begins to write. Mixed in with her meditations on writing are daily events in her marriage to Alice B. Toklas, visits from friends - including such notable figures of the period as Josephine Baker, Virgil Thomson, Rene Crevel, and a number of expatriate American writers and artists - travels in and around France, memories of the past, inquiries into names and the nature of identity, and virtually anything else that occurs to her. As she writes at one point, "It can easily be remembered that a novel is everything," so everything of interest to Stein goes into her preparations for the novel that is A Novel of Thank You.".
- catalog contributor b6267300.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "This is the first paperback edition of one of Stein's most revealing novels. Written in 1925-26 (but not published until 1958), it is Stein's midcareer assessment of herself, her writing, and her relationships, composed in the unique style for which she is celebrated. In place of a traditional narrative, Stein explores the nature of narrative, its possibilities, the various genres (historical novels, the novel of manners, adventure stories) available to the writer, the conventions of novel-writing, and the novelist's relation to her materials. In a sense, the novel is about "preparing a novel" (the subject of chap. 50), about everything that goes through a writer's head as she begins to write. Mixed in with her meditations on writing are daily events in her marriage to Alice B. Toklas, visits from friends - including such notable figures of the period as Josephine Baker, Virgil Thomson, Rene Crevel, and a number of expatriate American writers and artists - travels in and around France, memories of the past, inquiries into names and the nature of identity, and virtually anything else that occurs to her. As she writes at one point, "It can easily be remembered that a novel is everything," so everything of interest to Stein goes into her preparations for the novel that is A Novel of Thank You.".
- catalog extent "xxvii, 256 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Novel of thank you.".
- catalog identifier "156478049X (pbk. : acid-free paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Novel of thank you.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press,".
- catalog relation "Novel of thank you.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "Americans France Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Authorship Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3537.T323 N68 1994".
- catalog subject "Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women authors Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog title "A novel of thank you / by Gertrude Stein ; with an introduction by Steven Meyer.".
- catalog type "Autobiographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".