Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
The inspiration behind the Amazon Original show Z THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING starring Christina Ricci as Zelda
-
-
4.3 • 19 Ratings
-
-
- $12.99
-
- $12.99
Publisher Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OF THE JAZZ AGE
NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINALS SERIES STARRING CHRISTINA RICCI
'If ever a couple ... became an era, it was F Scott Fitzgerald and his glamorous "flapper" wife, Zelda. They were the Jazz Age' Independent
When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. 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. When he sells his first novel, she optimistically boards a train to New York, to marry him and take the rest as it comes.
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. 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.
Everything seems new and possible, but not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. 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.
'Utterly compulsive reading' Stylist
'Brilliant' Daily Mail
'Superb' Independent
*Therese Anne Fowler's bestselling novel of the Gilded Age, A Well-Behaved Woman, is out now*
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jazz Age legends F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald come into focus in Fowler's rich debut. The famous couple have a whirlwind courtship in Montgomery, Ala., where Scott was briefly stationed at the end of WWI, and Zelda was the talk of the town. Then Fowler unfolds the next 20 years: the couple's New York celebrity after This Side of Paradise; the years in Paris with the other "Lost Generation" expats; and their return to the U.S. to treat Zelda's schizophrenia. Fowler is a close study of their famously tumultuous relationship, sparing no detail by following the Fitzgeralds through the less glamorous parts of their lives and the more obscure moments of history, including Zelda's obsession with ballet and the strained relationship she had with their daughter, Scottie. Most consistently, Zelda is worried about money, her husband's alcoholism and lack of productivity, and her own desire for recognition. Although obviously well researched, Zelda, who splashed in the Union Square fountain and sat atop taxi cabs, doesn't have, in Fowler's hands, the edge that history suggests. Fowler portrays a softer, more anxious Zelda, but loveable nonetheless, whose world is one of textured sensuality. Announced first printing of 150,000.
Customer Reviews
Zelda a novel
An insightful tragic work of fiction that transports the reader into the world of the most fascinating influential and tragic couples of the early last century. There's is a true tragedy of love. They were a couple that defined the jazz age and most of there century. This story is told with a tender hand as you watch there story unfold and dreams crumble told through the eyes of Zelda and although it doesn't always show mr Fitzgerald in a great light it shows both him and Zelda with there strengths and weaknesses. Gods of there era falling from mount Olympus being human and mostly it shows two lovers who's love for each other made them, broke them and tore them both to pieces.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
I just loved this book , it bought the years between the 1st & 2nd world wars to life.all the characters ,Artist, writers, Actors ect in the golden years in Paris. I would loved to have been there, sadly the only way ,is to reread Scot Fitzgerald & Hemingway .Also look for some more about Zelda & some of her stories. Robyn Harvey