Alice B. Toklas is Missing

Name: Alice B. Toklas is Missing
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert Archambeau
ISBN: 9798350858624

Author: Robert Archambeau

Narrator: Allyson Voller

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/28/2023

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

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.

About Robert Archambeau

Robert Archambeau possesses the world's least interesting international identity: born in Rhode Island, and raised in Canada, he spent summers in Maine, or at his father's art studio in the Canadian wilderness. He always felt he would end up making art, or at least movies, but his fate was grimmer still. He fell in with a group of poets and began writing poetry, scholarly studies of literature, and art criticism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

So much fun! If you loved the Lost Generation era of Paris, you'll also love this inventive mystery and the way it wraps itself around this amazing era! LOVED!......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl

A mystery set in 1920’s Paris, with all the expected characters: Stein, Toklas, Beech, Hemingway, Joyce and the list goes on. A bit long at some points, but interesting.......more

Goodreads review by Mary

You know when you discover a book that puts you in a great mood because the voice is so witty and fun and original that you try not to gobble it up all at once but you can't help yourself? — Alice B. Toklas Is Missing is that book. Archambeau writes with the heart of a lover, and his immersion in the......more

Goodreads review by Janet

Great fun! I was totally in love with the world of ‘20s paris as a teenager and so its delightful to dip into thay world again :)......more

Goodreads review by Gwen

This was an interesting story and well written. It took a few chapters to get into, but it was overall enjoyable. I was not familiar with many of the characters and the time period, so some of the references were lost on me. I like how the main character was from Lake Forest, Illinois.......more