What comes – 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. And she keeps absurdly insisting his writing will bring him fame and fortune. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is 17 and he is a young army lieutenant., Before long she has fallen in love with him although he is not wealthy, prominent or even a Southerner. ( From the publisher.When beautiful, reckless Southern Belle Zelda Sayre meets F. 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. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous-sometimes infamous-husband? 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. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. 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.Įveryone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel-and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife.

Patrick’s Cathedral and take the rest as it comes. Her father is deeply unimpressed.īut 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.

Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama.īefore 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. 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.

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