Everybody Was So Young
Title | Everybody Was So Young PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Vaill |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 509 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0544268946 |
New York Times Bestseller: “A marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era (The New York Times Book Review). Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy—witty, urbane, and elusive—was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, the Murphys also counted among their friends John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Fernand Léger, Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter, and a host of others. Far more than mere patrons, they were kindred spirits whose sustaining friendship released creative energy. Yet none of the artists who used the Murphys for their models fully captured the real story of their lives: their Edith Wharton childhoods, their unexpected youthful romance, their ten-year secret courtship, their complex and enduring marriage—and the tragedy that struck them, when the world they had created seemed most perfect. Drawing on a wealth of family diaries, photographs, letters and other papers, as well as on archival research and interviews on two continents, this “brilliantly rendered biography” documents the pivotal role of the Murphys in the story of the Lost Generation (Los Angeles Times). “Often considered minor Lost Generation celebrities, the Murphys were in fact much more than legendary party givers. Vaill’s compelling biography unveils their role in the European avant-garde movement of the 1920s; Gerald was a serious modernist painter. But Vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time.” —Library Journal
Everything Else in the Universe
Title | Everything Else in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Holczer |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2019-06-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0147508479 |
In the midst of the Vietnam War, a young girl struggles to embrace change in this tender family story for fans of Cynthia Lord and Wendy Maas Lucy is a practical, orderly person--just like her dad. He taught her to appreciate reason and good sense, instilling in her the same values he learned at medical school. But when he's sent to Vietnam to serve as an Army doctor, Lucy and her mother are forced to move to San Jose, California, to be near their relatives--the Rossis--people known for their superstitions and all around quirky ways. Lucy can't wait for life to go back to normal, so she's over the moon when she learns her father is coming home early. It doesn't even matter that he's coming back "different." That she can't ask too many questions or use the word "amputation." It just matters that he'll be home. But Lucy quickly realizes there's something very wrong when her mother sends her to spend the summer with the Rossis to give her father some space. Lucy's beside herself, but what's a twelve-year-old to do? It's a curious boy named Milo, a mysterious packet of photographs and an eye-opening mission that makes Lucy see there's more to life than schedules and plans, and helps to heal her broken family. The latest from critically-acclaimed author Tracy Holczer is a pitch-perfect middle grade tale of family and friendship that's sure to delight fans of One for the Murphys and Rules.
Living Well is the Best Revenge
Title | Living Well is the Best Revenge PDF eBook |
Author | Calvin Tomkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780870708978 |
Originally published by Viking Press in 1971; republished vy the Modern Library in 1998 with a new foreword.
Post War America 1945-1971
Title | Post War America 1945-1971 PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Zinn |
Publisher | eBookIt.com |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2012-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 145661083X |
Howard Zinn's unique take on this vital period in U.S. history with a new introduction. The postwar boom in the U.S. brought about massive changes in U.S. society and culture. In this accessible volume, historian Zinn offers a view from below on these vital years. By critically examining U.S. militarism abroad and racism at home, he raises challenging questions about this often romanticized period.
McNamara's Folly
Title | McNamara's Folly PDF eBook |
Author | Hamilton Gregory |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2015-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781495805486 |
Women of the Forest
Title | Women of the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Yolanda Murphy |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231132329 |
One of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology, this book remains an important teaching tool on gender and life in the Amazon. Women of the Forest covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucu people of Brazil in 1952, taking into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting. The book features a new critical foreword written collectively by respected anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys.
Murphy's War [1971]
Title | Murphy's War [1971] PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Revenge |
ISBN |
In the closing days of WWII a British ship is attacked. Following the massacre at the hands of a German U-Boat, just one survivor remains -- Murphy. A tough, indomitable sailor, Murphy escapes to a nearby island and plots his revenge. He intends to sink the U-boat that killed his crew by any means possible, and with the help of Louis, a friend he meets on the island, he plots his vengeance. Stars Peter O'Toole (How to Steal a Million, Under Milk Wood).