Everybody Was So Young Gerald and Sara

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. InEverybody Was So Young--one of the best reviewed books of 1995--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 (Nicole and Dick Diver inTender is the Nightwere modeled after the Murphys). 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).

Amanda Vaill was formerly executive editor at Viking Penguin.

Prologue: Antibes, May 28, 1926	p. 1
"My father, of course, had wanted boys"	p. 7
"Gerald's besetting sin is inattention"	p. 18
"New clothes, new friends, and lots of parties"	p. 27
"Thinking how nice you are"	p. 38
"I must ask you endless questions"	p. 50
"A relationship that so lets loose the imagination!"	p. 59
"Don't let's ever separate again"	p. 73
"The idea is thrilling to me"	p. 86
"An entirely new orbit"	p. 98
"A prince and a princess"	p. 110
"There is American elegance"	p. 121
"Very serious over trivialities and rather wise about art and life"	p. 135
"Our real home"	p. 150
"The kind of man to whom men, women, children, and dogs were attracted"	p. 167
"How can a wise man have two countries?"	p. 186
"A dismantled house where people have once been gay"	p. 202
"The invented part, for me, is what has meaning"	p. 217
"The geodetic points of our lost topography"	p. 230
"We try to be like what you want us to be"	p. 250
"Life itself has stepped in now"	p. 266
"Not on the same course, nor for the same port"	p. 281
"Enough to make the angels weep"	p. 293
"One's very Life seems at stake"	p. 307
"Isn't it strange how life goes on?"	p. 321
"Back there where they were"	p. 336
"Only half a person without you"	p. 352
Author's Note and Acknowledgments	p. 365
Notes	p. 371
Selected Bibliography	p. 443
Index	p. 450
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Everybody Was So Young Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

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