{"product_id":"living-well-is-the-best-revenge","title":"Living well is the best revenge","description":"In 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 Léger as well as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, who used the glamorous couple as models for Dick and Nicole Diver in\nTender 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\nof several of Gerald Murphy's remarkable paintings--canvases that predate Pop Art by forty years.\n\"Living Well Is the Best Revenge is\na 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.\"\nThis Modern Library edition includes Calvin Tomkins's new Introduction and a rewritten last chapter.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0380019396\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0380019396.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Calvin Tomkins\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43527607943229,"sku":"BVV.0380019396.A","price":119.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0380019396-0.jpg?v=1788039424","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/living-well-is-the-best-revenge","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}