{"product_id":"every-day-is-to-day-essential-writings-9781782278795","title":"Every Day Is To-Day: Essential Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling new ways to express the true essence of her subject with charming joie de vivre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStein considered her shorter writings to be the truest expressions of her enrapturing style. Her fascination with people and personalities can be located in expressive portraits of close friends Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Cezanne, Jean Cocteau, and Juan Gris, whilst her decades-long relationship with Alice B. Toklas is immortalised with shimmering eroticism. There are also playful meditations on her unique writing process, conveying her serious delight in meddling with conventions of grammar and composition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfirmed Table of Contents: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Portrait of Mabel Dodge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Matisse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Picasso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Miss Fur and Miss Skeene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Flirting at the Bon Marche\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Susie Asado\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preciosilla\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sacred Emily\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ladies Voices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Accents in Alsace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Idem the Same\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cezanne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Book Concluding with As A Wife Has a Cow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Van or Twenty Years Later\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e If I Told Him\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Juan Gris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Identify a Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Advertisments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What Happened\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Jean Cocteau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Movie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Waterfall and Piano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Saint in Seven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a writer, art-collector, and advocate for the avant-garde. Born in Pennsylvania, she studied psychology at Harvard and attended medical school, dropping out in her fourth year to move to Paris with her brother Leo. Here she played a crucial role in shaping the burgeoning European avant-garde, hosting literary salons that counted Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Ernest Hemingway among the visitors. She was the author of countless poems, plays and shorter works, as well as books including Three Lives, The Making of the Americans, Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - a memoir written in the voice of her life partner of many decades, Alice.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645206204690,"sku":"9781782278795","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5f03d19b-372d-4629-b618-6046cb0d02ae.jpg?v=1733143606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/every-day-is-to-day-essential-writings-9781782278795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}