Lucy Church Amiably
1930
First Published
3.69
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages
Nothing much happens in the book. It would be impossible to prepare an outline of the plot (as opposed, say, to "The Making of Americans"). The action is interior: a great deal is noticed, digested, absorbed, compared. The result can be read as an account of being in the countryside, or more complexly, as an investigation into the interlocking nature of things and into the ways that language can be used for description. "Lucy Church Amiably" is finally, in Miss Stein's own words, "A Novel of Romantic beauty and nature and which Looks Like an Engraving."
Avg Rating
3.69
Number of Ratings
58
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
22%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
7%
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Author
Gertrude Stein
Author · 47 books
Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.
