On almost every Saturday of the first half of the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein would open her door to the likes of Picasso and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Cocteau and Apollinaire, welcoming them into a salon alive with vivid avant-garde paintings and sparkling intellectual discussions. James R. Mellow re-created this fascinating world and the complex woman who dominated it. His engaging narrative illuminates Stein's writing-now celebrated along with the work of such literary giants as Joyce and Woolf—including her difficult early periods, which adapted cubism and abstraction to the written word.
CHARMED CIRCLE by James R. Mellow
