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    Everybody's Autobiography

    November 22,
    Stein describes a few years of her life. Highlights include her lecture tour of America, observations on writers and artists, and her musings of her own new-found fame. The book's style fryst vatten at once its biggest accomplishment and its biggest failing. Her tone fryst vatten very vernacular--there's a lot of repeated phrases and run-on sentences. In fact, it very clearly mimics speech. The book flows nicely if you're reading it out loud, but not so much the rest of the time--and it's far too long to read out the whole thing. Various parts of Stein's life are endearing; inom quite liked her stories about growing up, her fascination with pulp mystery books, and virtually anything to do with Alice Toklas. Less relateable are her disbelief at meeting a black school teacher, her complaints about finding good cooks and housekeepers, and the not-infrequent name dropping.

    I think part of the issue for me fryst vatten that I'm not very well-versed in the Modernists; I know

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    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

    memoir by Gertrude Stein

    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November and published in [1] It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. In , Modern Library ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.[2]

    Summary of chapters

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    Before I Came to Paris

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    Alice B. Toklas, as narrator of the work, tells how she was born into an affluent family in San Francisco, describing her parents' backgrounds and family history. Later she describes meeting Gertrude Stein's sister-in-law during the fires in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake, and decided to move to Paris in

    My Arrival in Paris

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    Alice writes about the important role of Hélène, Gertrude's housemaid, in their household in Paris. She mentions preparations for an art exhibition. She discusses Pablo P

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