Alice B. Toklas Is Missing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781646033850)

Jazz-age Paris was the center of the artistic and literary world, and the center of the center was Gertrude Stein's salon, where the famous and aspiring creative talents gathered to gawk at Stein's Picassos and vie for status. Young Midwesterner Ida Caine arrives in Paris with her husband Teddy, a would-be Hemingway who thinks he can adventure first and write later. When Teddy falls in with the Stein set, he brings Ida to the salon, where she is shunted into a corner with the wives of famous men. She burns with resentment and wonders if she can ever develop into a real artist herself. A few days later, Gertrude Stein's partner Alice B. Toklas vanishes. Stein calls upon Teddy to investigate. Soon after, he vanishes. Forced to seek out her missing husband, Ida follows his trail through a milieu including strange Surrealist rituals, Tarot card readings, and the catacombs beneath the city. She falls in with a young American poet, T.S. Eliot. An unlikely passion grows while they seek answers to the shocking disappearances.

Author: Robert Archambeau
ISBN-10: 164603385X
ISBN-13: 9781646033850
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2023
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.54w x 0.51d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2023 pg. 25
Foreword 10/27/2023
Library Journal 11/01/2023 pg. 40