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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
 
 

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de Amanda Vaill (Author) "SARA SHERMAN WIBORG MURPHY was a figure of myth long before the Fitzgeralds and the Hemingways and MacLeishes met her in France ..." En savoir plus
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Gerald and Sara Murphy were the golden couple of the Lost Generation. Born to wealth and privilege, they fled the stuffy confines of upper-class America to reinvent themselves in France as legendary party givers and enthusiastic participants in the modernist revolution of the 1920s. He became an important painter; she made everyday life a work of art. Their friends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos all based fictional characters on the Murphys; Picasso painted them; and Calvin Tomkins rekindled their glamour for a younger generation in his affectionate 1971 portrait, Living Well Is the Best Revenge. Amanda Vaill's vivid new biography builds on Tomkins's work to provide a full-length account of the Murphys' remarkable life together.

As well as good times, that life included suffering endured with great courage. The Murphys' teenage sons died within two years of each other in the mid-1930s--one suddenly, one after a long battle with tuberculosis--and the Depression forced Gerald to resume the uncongenial work of managing his family's business. Vaill's sensitive rendering reveals the moral substance that enabled this stylish couple to survive heartbreak. But it's her marvelous evocation of those magical expatriate years that lingers in the memory. The wit and imaginative panache with which the Murphys lived sparkles again, recapturing a splendid historical moment. As Sara later said, "It was like a great fair, and everybody was so young." --Wendy Smith --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.



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Often considered minor Lost Generation celebrities, the Murphys were in fact much more than legendary party givers. Vaill's compelling biography unveils their role in the European avant-garde movement of the 1920s; Gerald was a serious modernist painter. But Vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time: Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 some facts are not correct., Jui 9 2004
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i'll admit i havent even read the book. perhaps i will in the future, but a few incorrect "facts" fly out while just gazing over the material available online. the most glaring is that "Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Aunt." get with it she was his mother, obvious she named her son after her father. anyone who has read either's biography would know that. and for other sources John Hay Whitney "JOCK" was his cousin not his brother.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Making social history breathe, Avril 29 2004
Par S. A Troutt (MURFREESBORO, TN USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Few books deserve to be 'raved' about but mark this one as a definite 5 stars. Brilliantly researched and detailed, the author made these people 'real' to me, I felt I knew them. The Murphys, so very different yet so very much alike were 'The hostesses with the mostest' to all the upcoming glitterati of the 20's furnishing both emotional and monetary support at crucial times to Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cole Porter (and others) with a grace and charm that is as impressive now as it was then. It would have been so easy for Vaill just to cover that but she gives the lives behind the facade, the odd and distant relationships with both sets of parents and family, the heartbreak and sorrow of loss of their two sons that seemed to end all the lightness in theie lives. They and the world they had created were never the same after, as both they and their friends even at the time recognized. Its sometimes so easy to forget that the 20's were a brief flickering of a frantic time between a war and a depression. The Murphys lived before and after but somehow they both defined and were defined by that period. This book lets you know them for all they were.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Enchantiing, Fév 28 2002
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It must have been a glorious time in France with the Murphy's. Entertaining F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and the Hemingway's and Picasso was a very special time for all involved. This book speaks about a generation not so far removed from our own in the sixties. They were brilliant, wity, artistic and seemed to relish each others company. They thought it would lasr forever. How sad that it couldn't.
This was a lovely read.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 An American Literary Classic
What a beautiful, bittersweet work! It will leave you informed, inspired, exalted -- and annoyed that it doesn't go on for another 400 pp. Read more
Publié le Mars 13 2001 par jack olsen

5.0étoiles sur 5 Fascinating account of Lost Generation love story
If anyone could be said to have lived a charmed life, it would be Gerald and Sara Murphy. They were wealthy, artistic and talented, with three beautiful, loving children and a... Read more
Publié le Sep 3 2000 par William Peschel

5.0étoiles sur 5 Riveting Biography of the Patron Saints of 20th Century Art
This is IT! Ms. Vaill has graced us with a masterpiece. I have read of, and loved, Gerald & Sara Murphy for 30 years. Read more
Publié le Juil 11 2000

5.0étoiles sur 5 You will wish you had known these people
This is one of the best biographical books I have ever read. It's got romance, adventure, excitement, passion- and its all real. Read more
Publié le Jui 21 2000 par Meredith Billman Mani

4.0étoiles sur 5 Paris in the 20's revisited
Amanda Vaill has researched this book with admirable skill and diligence. She has given the reader more than adequate detail of the life of the privileged in Paris after WW I. Read more
Publié le Mai 30 2000 par C. A. Spencer

4.0étoiles sur 5 Paris in the 20's revisited
Amanda Vaill has researched this book with admirable skill and diligence. She has given the reader more than adequate detail of the life of the privileged in Paris after WW I. Read more
Publié le Mai 30 2000 par C. A. Spencer

5.0étoiles sur 5 This was a wonderful book!
I absoultely loved this book. I was so enthralled by the history and atmosphere that surrounded the Murphy's and this was a great example of a decadent couple in the 1920's. Read more
Publié le Fév 19 2000 par Sarah Brownlow

4.0étoiles sur 5 A clear window into a fascinating world...
I bought this book months ago, and it sat on my shelf. Then someone gave me Calvin Tompkins' Living Well is the Best Revenge, and it was a perfect jumping off point (I recommend... Read more
Publié le Nov. 2 1999 par R. Metz

4.0étoiles sur 5 Fascinating, couldn't put it down
As a fiction reader, I was surprised at how interesting and readable this biography was. Ms. Vaill did a beautiful job mixing quotes from letters and people with her own... Read more
Publié le Nov. 1 1999 par Alison H.

1.0étoiles sur 5 Same old stuff with a fancy cover
I was terribly disappointed (not to mention a bit bored) by this obsequious book. Gerald & Sara was a superior effort, and I would direct potential readers to that first... Read more
Publié le Oct. 26 1999

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