Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story By Amanda Vaill

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New York Times Bestseller: “A marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era (The New York Times Book Review). Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy—witty, urbane, and elusive—was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, the Murphys also counted among their friends John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Fernand Léger, Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter, and a host of others. Far more than mere patrons, they were kindred spirits whose sustaining friendship released creative energy. Yet none of the artists who used the Murphys for their models fully captured the real story of their lives: their Edith Wharton childhoods, their unexpected youthful romance, their ten-year secret courtship, their complex and enduring marriage—and the tragedy that struck them, when the world they had created seemed most perfect. Drawing on a wealth of family diaries, photographs, letters and other papers, as well as on archival research and interviews on two continents, this “brilliantly rendered biography” documents the pivotal role of the Murphys in the story of the Lost Generation (Los Angeles Times). “Often considered minor Lost Generation celebrities, the Murphys were in fact much more than legendary party givers. Vaill’s compelling biography unveils their role in the European avant-garde movement of the 1920s; Gerald was a serious modernist painter. But Vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time.” —Library Journal

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I am always drawn to books about the beautiful people, especially during the Gilded Age in New York and the early 20th Century in Europe and the States. As a consequence, I have done a fair amount of reading about "the lost generation" of Paris is the 20's, the arbiters of taste and creativity of the ages and the iconic artists and personages of this mythical time in history. In my readings I have often encountered The Murphy's. They pop up in books about Fitzgerald and Hemmingway, Cole Porter, Dawn Powell and many other shining stars of that era.Because I had so often encountered the radiant couple, I began to seek out sources about them as people, not just as people on the periphery of the movers and shakers of the time. I chanced upon the Tompkins piece in the New Yorker, "Living Well Is the Best Revenge." It whetted my appetite for more about these charmed and enigmatic people. Around the same time, I saw De-Lovely, the fictionalized movie about Cole Porter and his wife Linda in which the Murphy's play a large, if not totally accurate, part.Then I found this book, Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill, in my BookBub Kindle selections and my pulse started racing. Finally, a book length inquiry into the elusive couple I longed to know. My find has proven to be one of the most delicious of my book trolling career.This is no mere surface rehashing of the same old stories about Gerald and Sara Murphy we may have seen before. It is a rigorously researched account of both Gerald and Sara starting from their upbringing and parental influences, through their schooling and adolescences and college years, to the beginning of their improbable relationship and ultimate marriage. That is just the first third of this encompassing history.Vaill had uncommon access to the family's letters and recollections by virtue of having been born into the circle of society that included the Murphy's and some of their illustrious friends, and being a friend of their daughter, Honoria. The author even recalls having met Gerald and Sara late in their lives when she was very young, so her insights and understanding of the material she so painstakingly gathered is remarkable.The book goes into depths of intimate detail about not only the couple but also the many friends that made up their world, including Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Archibald MacLeish, John Dos Pass is, Hemmingway, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woolcott, Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russe, Fernand Lever, Cocteau, and countless other luminaries of the age and their many wives. Vaill has given us a comprehensive history not only of the golden couple but of the entire zeitgeist of the era.In addition, Vaill takes us up close and personal into the crushing destruction of the Murphy's perfect world. We are there through the financial vicissitudes of living in the monied stratosphere, the horrific loss of their two sons and their ability time and again to reinvent themselves in order to face the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." The equanimity and deep love they kept alive, despite the many obstacles they faced both internally and externally, serves as an inspiration to us all.For anyone interested in this fascinating time period, this is a book not to be missed. For those who are drawn to a family saga that includes self-doubt, sexual ambiguity, incalculable loss and inimitable grace under pressure, this is also a book for you. I cannot recommend this beautiful book more emphatically. I will treasure it.

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