9780679603085
Living Well Is the Best Revenge
Calvin Tomkins
ISBN 13: 9780679603085
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
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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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Book Description: Viking Press, New York, NY, 1971. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the original 1971 publication of this biographical memoir of Gerald and Sara Murphy, who were the inspiration for Dick and Nicole Diver in Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, and of their set of famous friends, including Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Cole Poeter, Picasso, and many more. Calvin Tomkins is well known as a art critic for The New Yorker and a writer of profiles of artists. He was a good friend of the Murphys and wrote about them first in a profile for The New Yorker in 1962. That profile is the basis for this book, with additional material and numerous photographs. Has a larger format and better reproduction of the photographs than the Modern Library republication. 148 pages. -------------------------- This copy is in very good condition. The binding is solid and square. The covering of white cloth and green textured paper shows almost no wear and still looks fresh and sharp. There is an owner's signature in front, but the text is clean and unmarked. The price-clipped dustjacket has considerable edgewear: there are several short tears and the top edge is tattered. Bookseller Inventory # 003852 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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