An Indispensable Companion To Gertrude Stein's Masterpiece, The Making Of Americans.&10;one Of The Great Works Of 20th-century American Fiction, Stein&8217;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 Last, Cecilia Konchar Farr And Janie Sisson Offer A Reader&8217;s Guide-the First Of Its Kind. As I Was Saying Is Proof That The Making Of Americans Is Not Unreadable As Charged, And Offers Accessible Entry To The Experimental Writing Stein Valued And Promoted Most&8212;the Original Modernist Novel By The Era&8217;s Most Influential Author.