Everybody Was So Young

Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife Sara were icons of the most enchanted 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. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona, they inspired kindred creative spirits including 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 this sweeping and richly anecdotal portrait of a marriage and an era "has brought them to life as never before" (Chicago Tribune).