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 a supravietuit perechea de lesbiene evreiesti in varsta nazistilor?" Autorul intreaba la inceputul acestei lucrari de biografie literara si jurnalism de investigatie. Perechea, desigur, este Gertrude Stein, maestrul modernist si Alice B Toklas, ,,albina muncitoare" care a slujit nevoilor lui Stein de-a lungul ,,casatoriei" lor de patruzeci de ani de expatriat.