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c2012., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Kla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: ""Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, TIGERS IN RED WEATHER is an unforgettable DEBUT novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment. Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the WWII, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their súreal lives."--Publisher.
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2015., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Kla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sara and Gerald Murphy's good looks, talent for living and perfectly successful marriage breed both devotion and jealousy amongst their friends. But when Owen Chambers, an American aviator, arrives in their lives, the deep emotional fissures in Sara and Gerald's marriage reveal themselves and their lives change forever. Villa America is a fictional imagining of the real lives of Americans Sara and Gerald Murphy who, in the heady years of 1920s France, presided over a group of expatriate writers, painters, singers and dancers--including Pablo Picasso and Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This dazzling cast of characters gathered together in the Murphy home in Cap d'Antibe, as both Sara and Gerald cast their elusive magic over all of them. Spanning 1890s New York, the battlefields of WWI, the birth of aviation, the artistic explosion of 1920s France, the Depression and the rise of fascism, Villa America charts the beautiful and tragic course of three intertwined lives to create a vivid portrait of a gilded age that couldn't last.
