The era is projected in full technicolour and makes for utterly compulsive reading. Our girl finally gets the justice, autonomy, and recognition she so desperately craved in her lifetime.
She amplifies Zelda's whisper into a lion's roar. Fowler's take on Zelda Fitzgerald is both empowering and desperately sad as she strips away the rumour and damnation to reveal a portrait of a vulnerable young woman with so much to give who's destroyed by her husband and an era which promised women freedom - but only on men's terms ( Stylist)įowler articulates the story of Zelda in the first person, encapsulating her struggle exquisitely. ( Vogue UK)Ī brilliant example of what biographical fiction can be. ( Sara Gruen, author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS)įinely researched, entertaining and very plausible. In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, Therese Anne Fowler shines a light on Zelda instead of her more famous husband, providing both justice and the voice she struggled to have heard in her lifetime. ( Independent)Īn utterly engrossing portrayal of Zelda Fitzgerald and the legendary circles in which she moved. became an era, it was F Scott Fitzgerald and his glamorous "flapper" wife, Zelda. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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.
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. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINALS TV SERIES STARRING CHRISTINA RICCI: Z THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING
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