Amanda Vaill

New in paperback, here is a dazzling survey of the life, times and flamboyant work of one of New Yorkâs greatest jewelers, Seaman Schepps. Sometimes called âAmericaâs court jewelerâ, Schepps rose to prominence in the 1930s by creating designs that defied all previous ideas of what jewelry should look like. Witty â even outrageous â and wildly flattering, Scheppsâs jewelry stood for style more than wealth. Featured on the covers of Vogue, Harperâs Bazaar, Look, and other magazines, it appealed to an enormous range of clients, from the Duchess of Windsor to Andy Warhol. Today, nearly 25 years after his death, his work has inspired a legion of new collectors, who seek out vintage rings, bracelets, earrings, compacts and lipstick cases, and the firm continues to produce splendid pieces based on the original designs. This book brings Scheppsâs extraordinary jewelry to a new generation.

A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil WarMadrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europea conflict one writer will call the decisive thing of the centurysix people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea, chief of Madrids loyalist foreign press office, and Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised causea struggle that places both of them in peril.Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. As Hemingway put it, You could learn as much at the Hotel Florida in those years as you could anywhere in the world. From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries, official documents, and recovered reels of film, Amanda Vaill has created a narrative of love and reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth: finding it out, telling it, and living itwhatever the cost.

Hemingway necesitaba un éxito. Martha Gellhorn quería vivir peligrosamente. Barea sentía que su vida era una contradicción. Ilsa Kulcsar vivía para sus ideas. Gerda Taro y Robert Capa querían olvidarse de su pasado. Los seis, cada uno con su equipaje y su modo de mirar, llegan a Madrid y pasan por el hotel Florida, donde se reunian los periodistas extranjeros, los fotografos, los espias, los militares, bajo el estruendo de las bombas, en una guerra que los cambio a todos para siempre.Hotel Florida no es un estudio academico ni una ficcion. Es una reconstruccion basada en cartas, diarios y memorias, documentos oficiales, peliculas, biografias, historias y noticias de la epoca. Un gran fresco de la Guerra Civil española, dia a dia, personaje a personaje. Una guerra sobre la que se han escrito cientos de libros, pero ninguno como este.

Hemingway necesitaba un éxito. Martha Gellhorn quería vivir peligrosamente. Barea sentía que su vida era una contradicción. Ilsa Kulcsar vivía para sus ideas. Gerda Taro y Robert Capa querían olvidarse de su pasado. Los seis, cada uno con su equipaje y su modo de mirar, llegan a Madrid y pasan por el hotel Florida, donde se reunian los periodistas extranjeros, los fotografos, los espias, los militares, bajo el estruendo de las bombas, en una guerra que los cambio a todos para siempre. Hotel Florida no es un estudio academico ni una ficcion. Es una reconstruccion basada en cartas, diarios y memorias, documentos oficiales, peliculas, biografias, historias y noticias de la epoca. Un gran fresco de la Guerra Civil española, dia a dia, personaje a personaje. Una guerra sobre la que se han escrito cientos de libros, pero ninguno como este.

Hemingway necesitaba un éxito. Martha Gellhorn quería vivir peligrosamente. Barea sentía que su vida era una contradicción. Ilsa Kulcsar vivía para sus ideas. Gerda Taro y Robert Capa querían olvidarse de su pasado. Los seis, cada uno con su equipaje y su modo de mirar, llegan a Madrid y pasan por el hotel Florida, donde se reunian los periodistas extranjeros, los fotografos, los espias, los militares, bajo el estruendo de las bombas, en una guerra que los cambio a todos para siempre.Hotel Florida no es un estudio academico ni una ficcion. Es una reconstruccion basada en cartas, diarios y memorias, documentos oficiales, peliculas, biografias, historias y noticias de la epoca. Un gran fresco de la Guerra Civil española, dia a dia, personaje a personaje. Una guerra sobre la que se han escrito cientos de libros, pero ninguno como este.

The fantastically interesting (NPRs All Things Considered) biography of the legendary, intensely ambitious choreographer and director who changed Broadway with his productions of Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, and Gypsyfrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Pride and PleasureSuperlative . . . a vivid account of a theatrical wizard.VogueTo some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive mentor, a generous and entertaining companion and colleague. Guarded and adamantly private, he was an inveterate and painfully honest journal writer who confided his innermost thoughts and aspirations to a remarkable series of diaries and memoirs. As a choreographer and director of ballets like Dances at a Gathering, Afternoon of a Faun, and The Concert, he humanized neoclassical dance; with groundbreaking musicals like Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, and Gypsy, he changed the face of theater in America and exemplified the flowering of American art in the mid-twentieth century. His personal and professional lives were equally provocative: a self-proclaimed homosexual, Robbins had relationships with both men and women, and at the height of anti-Communist hysteria, he was forced to testify before Congress. Somewhere places Jerome Robbins squarely in the cultural ferment of his time and native city. Drawing on thousands of pages of documents to which Amanda Vaill was granted unfettered access, as well as on other archives and hundreds of interviews, Somewhere is a riveting narrative of a life lived onstage, offstage, and backstage. It is also an accomplished work of criticism and social history that chronicles one mans phenomenal career at a time when New York City was truly a helluva town.

Hemingway necesitaba un éxito. Martha Gellhorn quería vivir peligrosamente. Barea sentía que su vida era una contradicción. Ilsa Kulcsar vivía para sus ideas. Gerda Taro y Robert Capa querían olvidarse de su pasado. Los seis, cada uno con su equipaje y su modo de mirar, llegan a Madrid y pasan por el hotel Florida, donde se reunian los periodistas extranjeros, los fotografos, los espias, los militares, bajo el estruendo de las bombas, en una guerra que los cambio a todos para siempre.Hotel Florida no es un estudio academico ni una ficcion. Es una reconstruccion basada en cartas, diarios y memorias, documentos oficiales, peliculas, biografias, historias y noticias de la epoca. Un gran fresco de la Guerra Civil española, dia a dia, personaje a personaje. Una guerra sobre la que se han escrito cientos de libros, pero ninguno como este.