![]() Scott Fitzgerald's novel ''Tender Is the Night.'' One had always assumed that in telling of the Divers' decline and fall, Fitzgerald had taken the magic of the Murphys and grafted onto it his own unhappy history with his wife, Zelda. The Murphys are probably best remembered as the models for Dick and Nicole Diver in F. Don't ask me how.''Īnd yet their lives seem sad as told in Amanda Vaill's richly detailed new biography, ''Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy - A Lost Generation Love Story.'' ''Not a decorative added value,'' he continued, ''but a kind of revelation of inherent loveliness as though custom and habit had been wiped away and the thing itself was, for an instant, seen. ''There was a shine to life wherever they were,'' a friend, the poet Archibald MacLeish, said of them. ''The golden couple,'' the actress Marian Seldes called Gerald and Sara Murphy, the talented and wealthy Americans who stood at the center of expatriate culture in France during the modernist 1920's. Gerald and Sara Murphy - A Lost Generation Love Story ![]()
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