Letters from the lost generation : Gerald and Sara Murphy and friends / edited by Linda Patterson Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964.

Murphy, Sara, 1883-1975.

Miller, Linda Patterson, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964--Correspondence.

Murphy, Gerald.

Murphy, Sara, 1883-1975--Correspondence.

Murphy, Sara.

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964--Friends and associates.

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964.

Murphy, Sara, 1883-1975.

Painters--United States--Correspondence.

Painters.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Authors, American.

Expatriate painters.

Friends and associates.

United States.

France.

Painters' spouses--United States--Correspondence.

Painters' spouses.

Expatriate painters--France--Correspondence.

Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--France.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xlii, 378 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2002.

Summary:

This is the story of one of the most famous literary and artistic "sets" of the twentieth century. Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of a group including Ernest Hemingway and his wives, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Philip Barry, and many others. They personified the jazz age and the lost generation. The Murphys have been viewed primarily as cult/pop figures, particularly as they were depicted in Calvin Tomkins's Living Well Is the Best Revenge. This book contains nearly every extant letter between the Murphys and their friends during those decades and shows, through a sequential interweaving of letters from several correspondents, that the Murphys actually were the nucleus without which the group as we know it would not have stayed together. Miller allows the individual correspondents to tell their own stories, providing new insights into their lives and into the spirit of this remarkable era.

Contents:

Part 1 1925-1932 The Riviera in the Summer 1

Part 2 1933-1940 The Sunlight of the Winter Streets 67

Part 3 1941-1964 Back There Where We Were 263.

Notes:

Originally published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-364) and index.

ISBN:

0813025362

OCLC:

49351158