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Reviews: The book of salt: Gertrude Stein's cook serves a seasoned insight into love and exile
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THE BOOK OF SALT
Monique Truong
Chatto and Windus, GBP 12.99
AMONG the many iconic photographs that Cecil Beaton took of
Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas one frames the mythology
of a union which Monique Truong's debut novel also neatly captures:
"they were both in love with Gertrude Stein". In the foreground: the
dark heft of Stein's legendarily ego-weighted presence; Toklas is a
mere diminutive background blur, fading out by an open door which
suggests their public but enigmatic domestic life.
Stein's legend depends on this perspectival trick: the figures in
her Parisian ...
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