A review by t_bone
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm

5.0

I am not the least bit interested in the work of Gertrude Stein, yet I still read this book in a single sitting. Janet Malcolm can do no wrong in my eyes. Her use of long quotes from published and archival sources and her discussion of earlier biographies and biographers make her work as much about the challenge of biography as about the particular biographical subjects. Perhaps I didn’t enjoy this book quite as much as her books on psychoanalysis or The Silent Woman, but I still can’t give it less than five stars. Love you Janet.