| Description |
viii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-449) and index. |
| Summary |
"There was a shine to life wherever they were," said Archibald MacLeish, describing his friends Gerald and Sara Murphy. The real-life models for Nicole and Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, the Murphys have appeared in virtually every book about the Lost Generation, for their apartment in Paris and their Mediterranean Villa America were the center of social and artistic life for the likes of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stravinsky, John Dos Passos, Jean Cocteau, Cole Porter, and others. Gerald Murphy, the organizer of magical parties, was a brilliant painter whose work is currently undergoing a serious revival. Sara Murphy, an heiress who wore her pearls to the beach, was an enigmatic beauty whose allure enthralled Picasso (he painted her many times) as well as Fitzgerald and Hemingway. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Antibes, May 28, 1926 -- "My father, of course, had wanted boys" -- "Gerald's besetting sin is inattention" -- "New clothes, new friends, and lots of parties" -- "Thinking how nice you are" -- "I must ask you endless questions" -- "A relationship that so lets loose the imagination!" -- "Don't let's ever separate again" -- "The idea is thrilling to me" -- "An entirely new orbit" -- "A prince and a princess" -- "There is American elegance" -- "Very serious over trivialities and rather wise about art and life" -- "Our real home" -- "The kind of man to whom men, women, children, and dogs were attracted" -- "How can a wise man have two countries?" -- "A dismantled house where people have once been gay" -- "The invented part, for me, is what has meaning" -- "The geodetic points of our lost topography" -- "We try to be like what you want us to be" -- "Life itself has stepped in now" -- "Not on the same course, nor for the same port" -- "Enough to make the angels weep" -- "One's very Life seems at stake" -- "Isn't it strange how life goes on?" -- "Back there where they were" -- "Only half a person without you". |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus. |
| Subject |
Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964.
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Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964. |
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Painters -- United States -- Biography.
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Painters. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Murphy, Sara.
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Painters' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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Painters' spouses. |
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Expatriate painters -- France -- Biography.
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Expatriate painters. |
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France. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0395652413 |
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9780395652411 |
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