During the ups and downs of their marriage, Zelda encounters many stimulating muses-in Scott himself, and then in the many creative people they meet. She eventually runs off to New York to marry him-against the advice of her father-and they begin their legendary adventures as one of the elite couples of the Jazz age. When she meets Scott Fitzgerald, a young army Lieutenant, she falls head over heels for the dashing young man with dreams of becoming a novelist. The reader begins to get to know her as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, when she is dancing ballet and defying the restrictions her parents place upon her. I knew very little about Zelda Fitzgerald before I read this book, but by the time I finished it I had been moved by her passionate life. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous-sometimes infamous-husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott's, too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it. But not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. 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. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel-and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.
But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St.
Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: 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 years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama.
When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined, Look closer.and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. The inspiration fro the television drama Z: The Beginning of Everything.
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