{"product_id":"9781646033850-alice-b-toklas-is-missing","title":"Alice B. Toklas is Missing","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJazz-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41090881552481,"sku":"9781646033850","price":15.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33023390.jpg?v=1747323745","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781646033850-alice-b-toklas-is-missing","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}