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"item_title" : "Tender Buttons",
"item_author" : [" Gertrude Stein "],
"item_description" : "2011 Reprint of 1914. Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's hermetic works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. Tender Buttons is one of the great Modern experiments in verse. Simultaneously considered to be a masterpiece of verbal Cubism, a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax, the book is perhaps more often written about than actually read. Divided into three sections-Objects, Food, and Rooms-the book contains a series of descriptions that defy conventional syntax.",
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Tender Buttons : Objects, Food, Rooms
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2011 Reprint of 1914. "Tender Buttons" is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. "Tender Buttons" is one of the great Modern experiments in verse. Simultaneously considered to be a masterpiece of verbal Cubism, a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax, the book is perhaps more often written about than actually read. Divided into three sections-"Objects," "Food," and "Rooms"-the book contains a series of descriptions that defy conventional syntax.
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- ISBN-13: 9781614271772
- ISBN-10: 1614271771
- Publisher: Martino Fine Books
- Publish Date: September 2011
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.14 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.22 pounds
- Page Count: 60
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