{"product_id":"living-well-is-the-best-revenge-9780380019397","title":"Living well is the best revenge","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Lger 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 Murphys 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 Tomkinss new Introduction and a rewritten last chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792605503541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0380019396","price":334.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780380019397.jpg?v=1784755326","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/living-well-is-the-best-revenge-9780380019397","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}