'The unforgettable stories of three women, told with poignancy and compassion by one of the most important writers of our century'
Painting a powerful portrait of women trapped in drudgery, Susan Sontag favourite, Gertrude Stein’s debut novel Three Lives, published in 1909, is a ground-breaking portrayal of abuse and non-heteronormative sexuality, and is a searing indictment of the struggles of the working class in turn-of-the-century America. An astonishing work that stands as a monument in Modernism and comes from the pen of a writer whose intelligence and understanding bleeds from every page.
