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Amanda Vaill

    Amanda Vaill is an author whose work delves into complex lives and cultural movements. Her interest in arts and history is evident in her explorations of iconic figures and pivotal moments, uncovering the intricate connections between personal lives, creative output, and broader societal contexts. Her writing is marked by meticulous research and a fluid narrative style that draws readers into compelling historical and biographical accounts.

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    Everybody Was So Young
    • Everybody Was So Young

      Gerald and Sara Murphy

      • 470 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting 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. In Everybody Was So Young--one of the best reviewed books of 1998--Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who flocked around them. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona, Gerald and Sara inspired kindred creative spirits like 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 in this sweeping and richly anecdotal portrait of a marriage and an era, Amanda Vaill "has brought them to life as never before" (Chicago Tribune).

      Everybody Was So Young
    • Madrid 1936 – der Bürgerkrieg verwüstet die spanische Hauptstadt. Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, Arturo Barea und Ilsa Kulcsar – dicht am Abgrund begegnen sich drei Liebespaare und erleiden beispielhaft die Extreme des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es ist Krieg. In dieser angespannten Situation treffen sechs Menschen im Hotel Florida in Madrid aufeinander: Ernest Hemingway hofft, Material für ein neues Buch zu finden, und beginnt eine Affäre mit Martha Gellhorn. Die ehrgeizige Journalistin hungert nach Liebe und Erfahrung und hofft, beides mit Hemingway in Spanien zu finden. Die Idealisten Robert Capa und Gerda Taro fotografieren – anders als alle anderen. Sie erfinden den modernen Fotojournalismus und revolutionieren die Arbeit der Kriegsfotografen, der »bewaffneten Augenzeugen«. Arturo Barea und Ilsa Kulcsar telegrafieren die Wahrheit über diesen Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen Faschismus und Kommunismus in alle Welt. Sie alle schweben in höchster Gefahr, denn die Wahrheit stirbt in jedem Krieg zuerst ...

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