Wydana po raz pierwszy w 1933 roku Autobiografia Alice B. Toklas przyniosła Gertrude Stein natychmiastowy rozgłos i uczyniła z niej postać kultową. Autorka głosem swojej wieloletniej partnerki opowia
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, an
Sadder than salad.
From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of every