The characterization avoids stereotypes, and all the name-dropping is done with purpose. Perhaps Fowler has filed some edges off the real Zelda’s personality to make her more sympathetic, but her daring and confidence still leap from the page. Zelda narrates her own tale, beginning as an uninhibited Alabama teenager and moving through her marriage to an ambitious, as-yet-unknown writer, their years of notoriety, the birth of daughter Scottie, and their final tragic decline.
It’s clear from the beginning that the momentum could never have lasted, but the telling makes for great escapism. Their union derailed into excessive drinking (his), mental illness (hers), and mutual accusations of thwarted ambition.
Their decades-long love story played out in New York and Europe as they attended parties, spent wads of cash, and fought their inner demons and each other as they struggled to create art of their own. Scott Fitzgerald personified the era’s reckless abandon. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous - sometimes infamous - husband? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it.An intimate portrait of a flamboyantly public marriage, Z imagines Zelda Fitzgerald’s voice in this exhilarating account of a life lived in decadent, full color. Each place they go becomes a playground:New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera - where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein.Įverything seems new and possible, but not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. When he sells his first novel, she optimistically boards a train to New York, to marry him and take the rest as it comes. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame.
Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. became an era, it was F Scott Fitzgerald and his glamorous "flapper" wife, Zelda. NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINALS SERIES STARRING CHRISTINA RICCI THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OF THE JAZZ AGE
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