{"product_id":"tender-buttons-9780486298979","title":"Tender Buttons","description":"Mentor and guide to the Lost Generation of expatriate American writers, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) is perhaps better known for her Parisian salon than her literary works. Yet her innovative approach to writing and her originality of thought make the impact of her books on contemporary literature enormous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, \u003ci\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/i\u003e gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers ... For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words.\u003cbr\u003eOften compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of \u003ci\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/i\u003e offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486298979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.45w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1999 pg. 134\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gertrude Stein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36637735223452,"sku":"9780486298979","price":5.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_024a1088-062e-4e9f-9296-6b4f2d722d5e.jpg?v=1603845561","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tender-buttons-9780486298979","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}