Food

Author(s): Stein, Gertrude,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 22/02/2018,
Pagination: 64 pages,
Series: Penguin Modern,
Imprint: Penguin Classics,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets,
Dimensions: 169 x 117 x 6
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780241339688

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Sadder than salad.

From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.