Stein and Hemingway: The Story of a Turbulent Friendship (Paperback)

from fuzzy_patters

I came to this book as a big fan of Hemingway who has not read much of Stein. As such, this book did not reveal much of Hem than I already knew, but I did learn a lot about Stein and her importance to Hemingway's career. The highlight of the book for me was the section that discussed Stein's favo...

from BlackSheepDances

First off, who selected the photos for the cover art for this book? Seriously, it sets the mood immediately: Gertrude Stein looking mean and shrill and Ernest Hemingway with an amiable Dos Equis half-smile, his cap at a jaunty angle. Would I have perceived the book differently had she looked a bi...

from NellieMc

I liked this book, actually more than I thought I would. So much has been written about both Gertrude Stein and Earnest Hemingway that you wonder -- what else could be added. However, I don't know that much about either and in a relatively short book, (186 pages before the end matter), the device...

from snash

This is very readable account of the friendship of Gertrude Stein and Earnest Hemingway. In the process of chronicling that friendship it provides a good portrait of them both along with a glimpse of the many others who touched their lives. For me, who had read previous biographies of both, I was...

from memasmb

I received a copy of this book from Library Thing as an Early Reviewer in exchange for a review. Before I read this book, I read Sister Brother: Gertrude & Leo Stein by Brenda Wineapple, The Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula McLain and I watched Woody Allen's Midnight...