num_pages: 470
description: 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. In Everybody Was So Young--one of the best reviewed books of 1998--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 in Tender is the Night were 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).
language: English
title: Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
titlecomplete: Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
characters: Gerald Murphy, Sara Murphy
genres: New York, France, Historical, History, American History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 2480
places: French Riviera, Paris
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Broadway Books