Volume 54, Number 16 · October 25, 2007
The Last Act
By Michael Kimmelman
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
by Janet Malcolm
Yale University Press, 240 pp., $25.00
Janet Malcolm begins her remarkable work on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas by recalling how, half a century or so ago, like many other pretentious young Americans feeling hemmed in by Eisenhower-era conformity, she gravitated to Toklas's cookbook. Its carefree, worldly snobbishness 'fit right in with our program of callow preciousness,' she writes. 'We loved its waspishly magisterial tone, its hauteur and malice.'
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