Everybody was so young : Gerald and Sara Murphy, a lost generation love story /
"There was a shine to life wherever they were," said Archibald MacLeish, describing his friends Gerald and Sara Murphy. The real-life models for Nicole and Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, the Murphys have appeared in virtually every book about the Lost Generat...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Antibes, May 28, 1926
- "My father, of course, had wanted boys"
- "Gerald's besetting sin is inattention"
- "New clothes, new friends, and lots of parties"
- "Thinking how nice you are"
- "I must ask you endless questions"
- "A relationship that so lets loose the imagination!"
- "Don't let's ever separate again"
- "The idea is thrilling to me"
- "An entirely new orbit"
- "A prince and a princess"
- "There is American elegance"
- "Very serious over trivialities and rather wise about art and life"
- "Our real home"
- "The kind of man to whom men, women, children, and dogs were attracted"
- "How can a wise man have two countries?"
- "A dismantled house where people have once been gay"
- "The invented part, for me, is what has meaning"
- "The geodetic points of our lost topography"
- "We try to be like what you want us to be"
- "Life itself has stepped in now"
- "Not on the same course, nor for the same port"
- "Enough to make the angels weep"
- "One's very Life seems at stake"
- "Isn't it strange how life goes on?"
- "Back there where they were"
- "Only half a person without you."