Living Well is the Best Revenge (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Tomkins, Calvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679603085 ISBN 13: 9780679603085

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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Book by Tomkins Calvin

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Featuring a new introduction by the author, a portrait of Gerald and Sara Murphy, members of the circle of famous artists and writers in the Roaring Twenties, includes the sixty-seven photographs of the first edition.

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In this enchanting memoir, New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins re-creates the privileged world of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American originals who found themselves at the center of a charmed circle of artists and expatriate writers in France in the 1920s. Their home in Antibes, Villa America, served as a gathering place for Picasso and Léger as well as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, who used the glamorous couple as models for Dick and Nicole Diver in
Tender Is the Night. A bestseller when it first appeared in 1971, Living Well Is the Best Revenge features sixty-nine intimate photographs collected from the Murphys' family album, along with reproductions
of several of Gerald Murphy's remarkable paintings--canvases that predate Pop Art by forty years.
        "Living Well Is the Best Revenge is
a superb little study, alive with an elegance very much the Murphys'," said Nancy Mitford. Critic Russell Lynes found the book to be "at once a sharp and charming evocation of an era and a cast, mostly delightful, surely famous, and usually talented, written with an elegant balance between tongue in cheek and sympathy."
        This Modern Library edition includes Calvin Tomkins's new Introduction and a rewritten last chapter.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679603085
• ISBN 13: 9780679603085
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172