num_pages: 256
description: Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the teacher travels to Paris under an assumed name -- that of his best friend, Herbert. In Paris, "Herbert" becomes enchanted by Stephane, a fifteen-year-old boy. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, "Herbert" is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity.
language: English
title: Allan Stein
titlecomplete: Allan Stein
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Queer Lit, Gay
ratings_count: 141
places: Paris
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Ferro-Grumley Awards
publisher: Grove Press