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Amanda Vaill

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AMANDA VAILL's most recent book is Jerome Robbins, By Himself, a selection of the letters, journals, and other writings of the legendary choreographer-director. She is currently completing a dual biography of the Schuyler sisters, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and Angelica Schuyler Church. She is the author of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War; Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins; and the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy – A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography. She is also co-author of Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design, an illustrated study of the work of her designer grandfather, and has edited or ...more

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	Selected Stories by O. Henry, Amanda Vaill (Goodreads Author) (Editor and Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 17,578 ratings — published 1922 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story 4.06 avg rating — 2,477 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War 3.80 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beatles Are Here!: 50 Years after the Band Arrived in America, Writers, Musicians & Other Fans Remember by Penelope Rowlands (Goodreads Author), Henry Grossman (Photographer), Joe Queenan (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins 4.11 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir by Jerome Robbins, Amanda Vaill (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design by Amanda Vaill (Goodreads Author), Janet Zapata 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War] [By: Vaill, Amanda] [April, 2014] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vtg Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, And Death In The Spanish Civil War - Amanda Vaill [Hardcover] Amanda Vaill 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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... That’s kind of how you feel when you’re waiting for the public unveiling of something you’ve spent years of work and emotional, psychological, and intellectual capital on: as if you’re walking unprotected into a falling rock zone.

Fortunately, the first substantial “public” review of Hotel Florida has just appeared – early! – in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and it’s not a falling rock, it’s a bo Read more of this blog post »

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Amanda wants to read The Betrothed: From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Amanda answered Goodreads's question: What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book? There are a number of mysteries in my family, with enough plots for a shelf of books; but I’m not going to reveal them here because I’m going to cover them in MY next book, a historical family memoir.
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“how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.”
― Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

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“In a road-mender’s hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: “La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau.” (“Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.”)”
― Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

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“There can be no compromise, no truce,” the general told Allen then. “I shall advance. I shall take the capital. I will save Spain from marxism at whatever cost.” “That means,” Allen asked, for clarification, “that you will have to shoot half Spain?” Franco smiled. “I said whatever the cost.” The Spanish Civil War had begun.”
― Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

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