Everybody Was So Young Gerald and Sara Murphy A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill
Brand: BROADWAY BOOKS
Product Description
A dazzling biography for readers of The Great Gatsby and other Lost Generation authors Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife Sara were icons of the most enchanting period of our time handsome talented and wealthy expatriate Americans they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was So Young Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who flocked around them. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona Gerald and Sara inspired kindred creative spirits like Dorothy Parker Cole Porter and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald even modeled his main characters in Tender is the Night after the couple. Their story is both glittering and tragic and in this sweeping and richly anecdotal portrait of a marriage and an era Amanda Vaill has brought them to life as never before Chicago Tribune. show more
Condition : New
Author : Amanda Vaill
Weight : 540
Publisher : BROADWAY BOOKS
Language : English
EAN : 9780767903707
ISBN10 : 0767903706
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 19990501
Place of Publication : New York NY United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 134 X 202 X 28mm