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- catalog abstract "This volume is a dual biography of American author Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and her brother, American art collector and critic Leo Stein (1872-1947). The author tells the story of their devoted and eccentric relationship as siblings. Gertrude and Leo were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until finally, they spoke no more. Siblings of German-Jewish ancestry with inherited incomes, Gertrude and Leo showed little motivation to succeed at anything. Leo would drop out of law school, Gertrude out of medical school. From their teens in Cambridge and Baltimore into their late 30s on the Continent, they remained close, often living together. In France, they collected Bohemian friends and avant-garde art while trying to find themselves. Gertrude grew fat and sloppy while bullying her lesbian set; Leo became neurotic and anorexic, his sense of inadequacy growing in proportion to his sister's success. By 1913, her experimental prose built upon repetition and rhythm was already being parodied. Going nowhere when Alice Toklas moved in, Leo moved out of the already famous Paris flat hung with Picassos, Matisses and Renoirs to a cottage in Italy, taking half the pictures. Leo's loyal but desperate mistress would follow him. Finally, just before his death, Leo published the single book on aesthetics by which he would be remembered. The year before, he had heard about Gertrude's death only from a newspaper. In a fascinating dual biography of these two American expatriates, Brenda Wineapple tells the story of a powerful, poignant relationship rooted in love, longing, and smoldering rivalry, a relationship so profound that when it ruptured in 1914, sister and brother never spoke to each other again. Wineapple reconstructs those exciting turn-of-the-century years when Gertrude and Leo fell in love with the people and ideas that later helped drive them apart. In this, the first biography to be written about Leo Stein - and the first completely researched book about Gertrude to appear in more than twenty years - Wineapple unearths a wealth of new and rare material, including an early Gertrude Stein manuscript, printed here for the first time.".
- catalog contributor b9565750.
- catalog coverage "Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "In a fascinating dual biography of these two American expatriates, Brenda Wineapple tells the story of a powerful, poignant relationship rooted in love, longing, and smoldering rivalry, a relationship so profound that when it ruptured in 1914, sister and brother never spoke to each other again. Wineapple reconstructs those exciting turn-of-the-century years when Gertrude and Leo fell in love with the people and ideas that later helped drive them apart. In this, the first biography to be written about Leo Stein - and the first completely researched book about Gertrude to appear in more than twenty years - Wineapple unearths a wealth of new and rare material, including an early Gertrude Stein manuscript, printed here for the first time.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-500) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: And they were not wrong -- [pt. 1:] Disorder and early sorrow. Bes Almon -- Tempers we are born with -- Too darn anxious to be safe -- [pt. 2:] Both ones that quite enough are knowing. To know thyself -- The feminine half -- Evolution -- Respectability -- New Americans -- [pt. 3:] Speech is the twin of my vision. Gilded cages -- Brother singular -- Quod erat demonstrandum -- Toward a more quintessential method, 1903-1905 -- In the thick of it -- [pt. 4:] An alarm has no button. Quarreling -- Banquets -- I could be so happy -- A Fine frenzy -- Myself and strangers, or the inevitable character of my art -- [pt. 5:] Ripeness is all. Two -- The disaggregation -- Of having a great many times not continued to be friends: a finale -- Epilogue: A family romance.".
- catalog description "This volume is a dual biography of American author Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and her brother, American art collector and critic Leo Stein (1872-1947). The author tells the story of their devoted and eccentric relationship as siblings. Gertrude and Leo were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until finally, they spoke no more. Siblings of German-Jewish ancestry with inherited incomes, Gertrude and Leo showed little motivation to succeed at anything. Leo would drop out of law school, Gertrude out of medical school. From their teens in Cambridge and Baltimore into their late 30s on the Continent, they remained close, often living together. In France, they collected Bohemian friends and avant-garde art while trying to find themselves. Gertrude grew fat and sloppy while bullying her lesbian set; Leo became neurotic and anorexic, his sense of inadequacy growing in proportion to his sister's success. By 1913, her experimental prose built upon repetition and rhythm was already being parodied. Going nowhere when Alice Toklas moved in, Leo moved out of the already famous Paris flat hung with Picassos, Matisses and Renoirs to a cottage in Italy, taking half the pictures. Leo's loyal but desperate mistress would follow him. Finally, just before his death, Leo published the single book on aesthetics by which he would be remembered. The year before, he had heard about Gertrude's death only from a newspaper.".
- catalog extent "514 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0399141030 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,".
- catalog spatial "France Paris".
- catalog spatial "Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "818/.5209 B 20".
- catalog subject "Americans France Paris History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Art Collectors and collecting France Paris Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Family relationships.".
- catalog subject "Brothers and sisters France Paris Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3537.T323 Z96 1996".
- catalog subject "Stein family.".
- catalog subject "Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 Family.".
- catalog subject "Stein, Leo, 1872-1947 Family.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American 20th century Family relationships.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: And they were not wrong -- [pt. 1:] Disorder and early sorrow. Bes Almon -- Tempers we are born with -- Too darn anxious to be safe -- [pt. 2:] Both ones that quite enough are knowing. To know thyself -- The feminine half -- Evolution -- Respectability -- New Americans -- [pt. 3:] Speech is the twin of my vision. Gilded cages -- Brother singular -- Quod erat demonstrandum -- Toward a more quintessential method, 1903-1905 -- In the thick of it -- [pt. 4:] An alarm has no button. Quarreling -- Banquets -- I could be so happy -- A Fine frenzy -- Myself and strangers, or the inevitable character of my art -- [pt. 5:] Ripeness is all. Two -- The disaggregation -- Of having a great many times not continued to be friends: a finale -- Epilogue: A family romance.".
- catalog title "Sister brother : Gertrude and Leo Stein / Brenda Wineapple.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".