Living Well Is The Best Revenge: Two Americans In Paris 1921-1933
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
In the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan than Gerald and Sara Murphy — the real-life inspirations behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's golden couple in Tender is the Night. Calvin Tomkins' Living Well is the Best Revenge chronicles the extraordinary lives of these two expatriates who, between 1921 and 1933, transformed their Villa America on the French Riviera into a magnetic salon for the era's greatest artistic minds, hosting Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Léger with legendary grace and wit. Tomkins, the celebrated New Yorker staff writer and art critic, presents an intimate and evocative portrait of a lost world — one poised at the intersection of immense personal tragedy and dazzling cultural renaissance. Originally published as a New Yorker profile, this expanded biography illuminates the Murphys' remarkable influence on the modernist movement and the bitter irony that underscores their story: that the couple who seemingly had everything — beauty, wealth, friendship, and talent — ultimately suffered losses that no amount of Riviera sunshine could soften. A bittersweet testament to the brilliance and fragility of the American Dream abroad, this is a story that refuses to let its era be forgotten.
Author: Calvin Tomkins
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Andre Deutsch, London
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
In the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan than Gerald and Sara Murphy — the real-life inspirations behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's golden couple in Tender is the Night. Calvin Tomkins' Living Well is the Best Revenge chronicles the extraordinary lives of these two expatriates who, between 1921 and 1933, transformed their Villa America on the French Riviera into a magnetic salon for the era's greatest artistic minds, hosting Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Léger with legendary grace and wit. Tomkins, the celebrated New Yorker staff writer and art critic, presents an intimate and evocative portrait of a lost world — one poised at the intersection of immense personal tragedy and dazzling cultural renaissance. Originally published as a New Yorker profile, this expanded biography illuminates the Murphys' remarkable influence on the modernist movement and the bitter irony that underscores their story: that the couple who seemingly had everything — beauty, wealth, friendship, and talent — ultimately suffered losses that no amount of Riviera sunshine could soften. A bittersweet testament to the brilliance and fragility of the American Dream abroad, this is a story that refuses to let its era be forgotten.