Two Lives

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'.

,,Cum au supravietuit cele doua lesbiene evreice in varsta nazistilor?", intreaba autoarea la inceputul acestei lucrari de biografie literara si jurnalism de investigatie. Perechea este, desigur, formata din Gertrude Stein, maestra modernista, si Alice B. Toklas, ,,albina lucratoare" care a slujit nevoilor lui Stein pe parcursul ,,casatoriei" lor de patruzeci de ani ca expatriati.