Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] Wineapple, Brenda [Fine] [Hardcover]

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Fine unread condition blue boards/blue green spine/silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Brenda Wineapple; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss; Prologue: And They Were Not Wrong; Epilogue: A Family Romance; Appendix; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The upper jacket spine edge is lightly rubbed (see photographs). All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). ""Brenda Wineapple's meticulous, scholarly, and affectionate double biography of Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo gives us the fascinating story of the two glorious originals. And the wealth of research is staggering!"" - Patricia Bosworth. ""So subtle is her discernment of masked selves, so searching her inspection of social circumstance, that Wineapple's moving study of the fraternal condition, as of the sororal one, becomes not only an eye-opening vademecum of American cultural assumptions in the first half of this century, but a tracing as well of that secret thread which seams all its arts: the relation of Jews to modernism. Sister Brother is a luminous, harrowing achievement for which all students of literature and art, as well as of families are in Brenda WIneaplle's debt."" - Richard Howard. ""In Sister Brother, her exemplary biography of Gertrude and Leo Stein, Brenda Wineapple has, like an art restorer, removed the grime and discolorations from the portraits of that extraordinary pair. In a calm, pellucid style, she has drawn an affecting picture of the thorny, gifted Steins, from their nomadic childhoods to the decisive break in their relationship. In the course of telling their story, WIneapple casts new light on hundreds of topics ranging from anti-Semitism and sexuality to stylistic experiment and the poignancies of success and failure, SIster Brother is that rare biography which, while giving pleasure, compels us to revise our assumptions about major actors in the revolutionary -- and legendary -- history of modernism."" - Herbert Leibowitz. ""The year is 1906, the setting a Paris atelier. A new literature is born amidst brazen canvases that pack the walls of a high-ceilinged room. Artists, students, writers, musicians, and hangers-on come to talk and listen and look. They come to see paintings by an unknown Picasso, and by Matisse, and by Cezanne, artwork differnt from anything they find elsewhere. And they come to meet the compelling, eccentric sister-brother team at the center of it all: Gertrude and Leo Stein. In a fascinating dual biography of these two American expatriates, Brenda Wineapple tells the story of a powerful, poignant relationship rooted in love, longing, and smoldering rivalry, a relationship so profound that when it ruptured in 1914, sister and brother never spoke to...