The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is autobiography of Gertrude Stein, written by Gertrude as if Alice B. Toklas. According to Virgil Thomson, the "book is in every way except actual authorship Alice Toklas's book; it reflects her mind, her language, her private view of Gertrude, also her unique narrative powers. Every story in it is told as Alice herself had always told it....Every story that ever came into the house eventually got told in Alice's way, and this was its definitive version."
Source
- Thomson, Virgil (). "A Portrait of Gertrude Stein", An Autobiography of Virgil Thomson, p.176-177.
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