{"product_id":"as-i-was-saying-1","title":"As I Was Saying","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of Americans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist literature: filled with repetition, overlapping and disintegrating plots, innumerable characters, and sentences stretching over pages. It is an immensely rewarding book, but also a potentially frustrating one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt last, Cecilia Konchar Farr and Janie Sisson offer a reader’s guide—the first of its kind. \u003cem\u003eAs I Was Saying\u003c\/em\u003e is proof that \u003cem\u003eThe Making of Americans\u003c\/em\u003e is not unreadable as charged, and offers accessible entry to the experimental writing Stein valued and promoted most—the original modernist novel by the era’s most influential author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55286518874456,"sku":"9781628974584","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781628974584.jpg?v=1777970731","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/as-i-was-saying-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}