the homecoming of a literary legend
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Morris, Roy jr.
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 STE 2019
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, reizen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book recounts the literary tour through the United States by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas after three decades of living abroad in France. For more than six months, Gertrude and Alice crisscrossed America, from New England to California, from Minnesota to Texas, stopping at thirty-seven different cities along the way. They had tea with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, attended a star-studded dinner party at Charlie Chaplin's home in Beverly Hills, enjoyed fifty-yard-line seats at the annual Yale-Dartmouth football game, and rode along with a homicide detective through the streets of Chicago. They met with the Raven Society in Edgar Allan Poe's old room at the University of Virginia, toured notable Civil War battlefields, and ate Oysters Rockefeller for the first time at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans.