Villa America
(eBook)
Description
A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night. When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and moved to the South of France, where they immediately fell in with a group of expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. On the coast of Antibes they built Villa America, a fragrant paradise where they invented summer on the Riviera for a group of bohemian artists and writers who became deeply entwined in each other's affairs. There, in their oasis by the sea, the Murphy's regaled their guests and their children with flamboyant beach parties, fiery debates over the newest ideas, and dinners beneath the stars. It was, for a while, a charmed life, but these were people who kept secrets, and who beneath the sparkling veneer were heartbreakingly human. When a tragic accident brings Owen, a young American aviator who fought in the Great War, to the south of France, he finds himself drawn into this flamboyant circle, and the Murphy's find their world irrevocably, unexpectedly transformed. A handsome, private man, Owen intrigues and unsettles the Murphy's, testing the strength of their union and encouraging a hidden side of Gerald to emerge. Suddenly a life in which everything has been considered and exquisitely planned becomes volatile, its safeties breached, the stakes incalculably high. Nothing will remain as it once was. Liza Klaussman expertly evokes the 1920s cultural scene of the so-called "Lost Generation." Ravishing and affecting, and written with infinite tenderness, Villa America is at once the poignant story of a marriage and of a golden age that could not last.
More Details
Notes
Reviews from GoodReads
Citations
Klaussmann, L. (2015). Villa America. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Klaussmann, Liza. 2015. Villa America. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Klaussmann, Liza, Villa America. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Klaussmann, Liza. Villa America. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Staff View
Hoopla Extract Information
hooplaId | 12525295 |
---|---|
title | Villa America |
language | ENGLISH |
kind | EBOOK |
series | |
season | |
publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
price | 2.99 |
active | 1 |
pa | |
profanity | |
children | |
demo | |
duration | |
rating | |
abridged | |
fiction | 1 |
purchaseModel | INSTANT |
dateLastUpdated | Sep 12, 2024 06:11:25 PM |
Record Information
Last File Modification Time | May 02, 2025 10:59:20 PM |
---|---|
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Jul 07, 2025 07:30:53 PM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 03461nam a22004455i 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | MWT17318579 | ||
003 | MWT | ||
005 | 20250418110344.1 | ||
006 | m o d | ||
007 | cr cn||||||||| | ||
008 | 250418s2015 xxu eo 000 1 eng d | ||
020 | |a 9780316211376 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
020 | |a 0316211370 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
028 | 4 | 2 | |a MWT17318579 |
029 | |a https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hbg_9780316211376_180.jpeg | ||
037 | |a 17318579 |b Midwest Tape, LLC |n http://www.midwesttapes.com | ||
040 | |a Midwest |e rda | ||
099 | |a eBook hoopla | ||
100 | 1 | |a Klaussmann, Liza, |e author. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Villa America |h [electronic resource] / |c Liza Klaussmann. |
264 | 1 | |a [United States] : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2015. | |
264 | 2 | |b Made available through hoopla | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (432 pages) | ||
336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
347 | |a text file |2 rda | ||
506 | |a Instant title available through hoopla. | ||
520 | |a A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night. When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and moved to the South of France, where they immediately fell in with a group of expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. On the coast of Antibes they built Villa America, a fragrant paradise where they invented summer on the Riviera for a group of bohemian artists and writers who became deeply entwined in each other's affairs. There, in their oasis by the sea, the Murphy's regaled their guests and their children with flamboyant beach parties, fiery debates over the newest ideas, and dinners beneath the stars. It was, for a while, a charmed life, but these were people who kept secrets, and who beneath the sparkling veneer were heartbreakingly human. When a tragic accident brings Owen, a young American aviator who fought in the Great War, to the south of France, he finds himself drawn into this flamboyant circle, and the Murphy's find their world irrevocably, unexpectedly transformed. A handsome, private man, Owen intrigues and unsettles the Murphy's, testing the strength of their union and encouraging a hidden side of Gerald to emerge. Suddenly a life in which everything has been considered and exquisitely planned becomes volatile, its safeties breached, the stakes incalculably high. Nothing will remain as it once was. Liza Klaussman expertly evokes the 1920s cultural scene of the so-called "Lost Generation." Ravishing and affecting, and written with infinite tenderness, Villa America is at once the poignant story of a marriage and of a golden age that could not last. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Families |v Fiction. | |
650 | 0 | |a History |v Fiction. | |
650 | 0 | |a Literature |v Fiction. | |
650 | 0 | |a Electronic books. | |
655 | 7 | |a Biographical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
655 | 7 | |a Fiction. |2 lcgft | |
710 | 2 | |a hoopla digital. | |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12525295?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435 |z Instantly available on hoopla. |
856 | 4 | 2 | |z Cover image |u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hbg_9780316211376_180.jpeg |