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A dazzling book occur the French Riviera predicated on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Soft Is The Nighttime. When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and wedded, they set forth to create a beautiful world collectively - one that they couldn't find within the confines of contemporary society life in NEW YORK. They packed up their children and transferred south of France, where they immediately dropped in with several expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. On the coastline of Antibes, they built Villa America, a fragrant paradise where they developed warmer summer months on the Riviera for several bohemian designers and freelance writers who became deeply entwined in each other's affairs. There, in their oasis by the ocean, the Murphys regaled their friends and their children with flamboyant beach celebrations, fiery debates above the most recent ideas, and dinners beneath the stars. It was, for some time, a charmed life, but they were people who stored secrets and who, beneath the dazzling veneer, were heartbreakingly real human. Whenever a tragic mishap brings Owen, a young American aviator who fought in the Great War, to the south of France, he sees himself attracted into this flamboyant circle, and the Murphys find their world irrevocably, unexpectedly changed. A good looking, private man, Owen intrigues and unsettles the Murphys, screening the strength of their union and pushing a hidden aspect of Gerald to emerge. All of the sudden a life in which everything has been considered and exquisitely prepared becomes volatile, its safeties breached, the stakes incalculably high. Nothing at all will stay as it once was. Liza Klaussman expertly evokes the 1920s cultural field of the so-called "Lost Era". Ravishing and affecting, and written with infinite tenderness, Villa America reaches after the poignant story of any matrimony and of a golden age that could not last.
