Product Description

Three short stories and prose poetry by the famous feminist... Three Lives is "a fine new kind of realism." (William James)

Tender Buttons is "to writing what cubism is to art." (W.G. Rogers)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #680000 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-04
• Released on: 2003-02-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Fine inexpensive edition. Other review is for audiotape!
This is a fine, inexpensive edition of one of Stein's two most readable productions (the other being 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'). I'm giving it five stars because the item's star rating has been impaired by a reviewer who's reviewing an audiotape, NOT the signet paperback book on this page.

Not good Gertrude, not good anything
Do yourself a favor and listen to Gertrude Stein reading Gertrude Stein, before or instead of listening to this recording. Enjoy Ms. Stein's crisp diction and the wonderful rhythms of her prose and prose/poems. Hear the way the sounds cascade through the phrases and the way the phrases become the meaning.

Then, if you must, listen to this Flo Gibson set. Possibly you won't listen to much of it. I disliked it intensely. The reader appears neither to understand nor to like the material and reads with unremitting dullness of diction and unrelentingly pedestrian rhythm. In an apparent attempt to give some workaday meaning to Stein's rippling, dancing phrases, many words are heavily overemphasized, like an extremely bad and condescending reading of a children's book. But do remember --you may not react as I did.

The reading is not helped by pops and hissings, especially noticeable and intrusive on the beginning consonants of most syllables.