Tender Buttons Illustrated

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Author:

Stein, Gertrude

ISBN:

979-8-5884-1982-6

Publication Date:

Jan 2021

Publisher:

Independently Published

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $6.99

Book Description:

Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar.Stein began composition of the book in 1912 with multiple short prose poems in an effort to "create a word relationship between the word and the things seen" using a "realist"...
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Book Details

Pages:	65
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.5 x 8.5 x 0.146 Inches
Book Weight:	0.3 Pounds

Author Biography

Stein, Gertrude (Author)

Famous writer Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, PA and was educated at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins medical school.

Stein wrote Three Lives, The Making of Americans, and Tender Buttons, all of which were considered difficult for the average reader. She is most famous for her opera Four Saints in Three Acts and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was actually an autobiography of Stein herself. With her companion Alice B. Toklas, Stein received the French government's Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise for theory work with the American fund for French Wounded in World War I.

Gertrude Stein died in Neuilly-ser-Seine, France on July 27, 1946.

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