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Everybody was so young : Gerald and Sara Murphy, a lost generation love story / Amanda Vaill.

LIBRA Special ND237.M895 V35 1999
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Author/Creator:
Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
  • Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
viii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
First Broadway Books trade paperback edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Broadway Books, 1999.
Summary:
Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were in the center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. Their friends included Picasso, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (his characters Nicole and Dick Diver in "Tender is the Night" were modeled after the Murphys).
Contents:
  • Prologue: Antibes, May 28, 1926 1
  • 1. "My father, of course, had wanted boys" 7
  • 2. "Gerald's besetting sin is inattention" 18
  • 3. "New clothes, new friends, and lots of parties" 27
  • 4. "Thinking how nice you are" 38
  • 5. "I must ask you endless questions" 50
  • 6. "A relationship that so lets loose the imagination!" 59
  • 7. "Don't let's ever separate again" 73
  • 8. "The idea is thrilling to me" 86
  • 9. "An entirely new orbit" 98
  • 10. "A prince and a princess" 110
  • 11. "There is American elegance" 121
  • 12. "Very serious over trivialities and rather wise about art and life" 135
  • 13. "Our real home" 150
  • 14. "The kind of man to whom men, women, children, and dogs were attracted" 167
  • 15. "How can a wise man have two countries?" 186
  • 16. "A dismantled house where people have once been gay" 202
  • 17. "The invented part, for me, is what has meaning" 217
  • 18. "The geodetic points of our lost topography" 230
  • 19. "We try to be like what you want us to be" 250
  • 20. "Life itself has stepped in now" 266
  • 21. "Not on the same course, nor for the same port" 281
  • 22. "Enough to make the angels weep" 293
  • 23. "One's very Life seems at stake" 307
  • 24. "Isn't it strange how life goes on?" 321
  • 25. "Back there where they were" 336
  • 26. "Only half a person without you" 352.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-449) and index.
ISBN:
  • 0767903706
  • 9780767903707
OCLC:
40631734

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