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Everybody Was So Young

Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

By Amanda Vaill

By Amanda Vaill

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Apr 20, 1999 | ISBN 9780767903707

Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill
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Apr 20, 1999 | ISBN 9780767903707

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About Everybody Was So Young

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).

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AMANDA VAILL is the author of Everybody Was So Young, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, Seaman Schepps, and Somewhere, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has written on arts and culture for New York, Esquire, Ballet Review, Architectural… More about Amanda Vaill

Product Details

Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

Paperback | $18.00
Published by Crown
Apr 20, 1999 | 512 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8 | ISBN 9780767903707

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"An exhaustively researched and brilliantly rendered biography."
—Los Angeles Times

"[This is] a marvelously readable biography . . . elegantly written."
—The New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant and wise account."
—San Francisco Chronicle

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