{"product_id":"9780735241466","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cb\u003eJO'S PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur narrator has a lot going on. Her friend Eva’s cat is missing—also, she wonders, where is Eva’s husband. Their other friend Fanny is barely around, and not because of her job in finance; she is tangled up with no less than three lovers. And Gertrude Stein is ruining the narrator’s life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe is trying to write an essay about Stein but it seems impossible. She knows too much and nothing at all about the leading avant-garde thinker of the early twentieth century. There are the facts: Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Harvard and medicine at Johns Hopkins, then quit; curated modern art in her rented apartment that would shake the world; wrote novels, plays, poetry, and libretti that are incoherent and brilliant; felt love at first sight for her daring wife, the subject of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut so much is out of reach. How do we put ourselves together? What do we lose to become modern? What do we find beyond the limits of language? Only a book like this, only a book by Deborah Levy, “an indelible writer [and] elliptical genius” (Dwight Garner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), could attempt such an investigation. It crashes through genre to form something distinctively, utterly new—an imaginative, entertaining, and scholarly manifestation befitting the genius at its center. This is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMy Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca class=\"ant-tooltip-open\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover | 240 pages | 5.5\" x 8.25\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gertrude Stein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48040280097000,"sku":"9780735241466x","price":36.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/m-2026-02-03T172150.268.jpg?v=1770157322","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.ca\/products\/9780735241466","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}