Mid-performance, a concert pianist walks off stage in Vienna, leaving her old life. As she begins a new one, she is shadowed across Europe by an almost-doppelgänger.
A collection of Stein's fiction and essays, including portraits of Alice B. Toklas, Juan Gris, Picasso and Matisse. One of Pushkin Press's pleasing small-format paperbacks.
Another slim, powerful novel from this excellent writer: as in The Order of the Day, he shows the web of overlapping and competing interests amongst politicians, industrialists and financier... read more