Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein's innovative modernist writing continues to astonish, amaze and fascinate one hundred years later. Arguably the most daring of all the American modernists, Stein was heavily influenced by European artistic trends, yet her writing remains quintessentially American and feminist in its attitudes. This is fascinating book for students of modernism in its most innovative form. Arguably Stein is the great innovator of American modernism – perpetually intriguing and always exciting in its experiments.