{"product_id":"gertrude-stein-has-arrived-the-homecoming-of-a-literary-legend-9781421431536","title":"Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e. Pantomiming the voice of her partner Alice, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography \u003c\/i\u003ewas actually Gertrude's work. But whoever the real author was, the uncharacteristically lucid and readable book won over the hearts of thousands of Americans, whose clamor to meet Gertrude and Alice in person convinced them to return to America for the first time in thirty years from their self-imposed exile in France. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than six months, Gertrude and Alice crisscrossed America, from New England to California, from Minnesota to Texas, stopping at thirty-seven different cities along the way. They had tea with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, attended a star-studded dinner party at Charlie Chaplin's home in Beverly Hills, enjoyed fifty-yard-line seats at the annual Yale-Dartmouth football game, and rode along with a homicide detective through the streets of Chicago. They met with the Raven Society in Edgar Allan Poe's old room at the University of Virginia, toured notable Civil War battlefields, and ate Oysters Rockefeller for the first time at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans. Everywhere they went, they were treated like everyone's favorite maiden aunts--colorful, eccentric, and eminently quotable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGertrude Stein Has Arrived\u003c\/i\u003e, noted literary biographer Roy Morris Jr. recounts with characteristic energy and wit the couple's rollicking tour, revealing how--much to their surprise--they rediscovered their American roots after three decades of living abroad. Entertaining and sympathetic, this clear-eyed account captures Gertrude Stein for the larger-than-life legend she was and shows the unique relationship she had with her indefatigable companion, Alice B. Toklas--the true power behind the throne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421431536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Roy Morris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36650198892700,"sku":"9781421431536","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_65c7b59f-2a24-422d-a393-6095e39aef41.jpg?v=1603874676","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gertrude-stein-has-arrived-the-homecoming-of-a-literary-legend-9781421431536","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}