Villa America : A Novel (Hardcover)

from Smits

The Golden Age of 1920's cultural scene is well revealed in this novel with main characters Sara and Gerald Murphy whose friends include F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway,. Wealth and it's lifestyle in France dominates this novel as does marriage, homosexuality, drinking and fami...

from EllenH

I hadn't realised this was based on real people until about a third of the way through. It was slow to get going, but the age and setting were beautifully portrayed. Made me research who these people really were.

from jcozart

Just finished a great read of Liza Klaussmann's historical novel about Sara and Gerald Murphy and their home Villa America on the French Riviera. Set in the 1920s, Sara and Gerald Murphy were wonderfully depicted characters throughout the novel. Ernest Hemingway was also one of my favorite charac...

from Beamis12

The novels of the Jazz Age have such a special atmosphere if done well. This age produced so many fine writers and artists whose works endure even now. Gerald and Sara Murphy are a couple I had read about in other novels but really didn't know very much about. In this novel, Klaussmann centers on...

from alanteder

Best Bits of the Lost Generation Liza Klaussmann has done a terrific job in concentrating the lives of Sara and Gerald Murphy into their most dramatic decade of the 1920's when they "invented" the Riviera and played host to everyone from Hadley, Pauline and Ernest Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fi...