Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Softcover

Anne Fowler, Therese

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444761439 ISBN 13: 9781444761436

Publisher: Two Roads, 2013

Synopsis

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINALS TV SERIES STARRING CHRISTINA RICCI: Z THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING
'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.

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Review:

If ever a couple ... became an era, it was F Scott Fitzgerald and his glamorous "flapper" wife, Zelda. They were the Jazz Age. (Independent)

An utterly engrossing portrayal of Zelda Fitzgerald and the legendary circles in which she moved. 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. (Sara Gruen, author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS)

Finely researched, entertaining and very plausible. (Vogue UK)

A brilliant example of what biographical fiction can be. Read it, read it, read it. (Daily Mail)

An often superb novel. (Independent on Sunday)

A must-read . . . 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)

Fowler articulates the story of Zelda in the first person, encapsulating her struggle exquisitely. She amplifies Zelda's whisper into a lion's roar. Our girl finally gets the justice, autonomy, and recognition she so desperately craved in her lifetime. The era is projected in full technicolour and makes for utterly compulsive reading. (Stylist)

A treat. (Sunday Times Style)

In her new novel Z, Fowler draws a compellingly complete portrait of that other Paris (and New York and St. Paul and Long Island) wife: mother, painter, writer, flapper, feminist Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. (USA Today)

A thrilling read. (Stylist.co.uk)

Book Description:

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL OF THE JAZZ AGE AND TRUE STORY OF ZELDA FITZGERALD, 'THE FIRST FLAPPER', WIFE AND MUSE TO F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: THE GOLDEN COUPLE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES

About this edition

• Publisher: Two Roads
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1444761439
• ISBN 13: 9781444761436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384