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. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel—and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. 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. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby’s parties go on forever. 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.
375 pages. (March 2013)
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Title Read-alikes: The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante; The Paris Wife by Paula McLain; Beautiful Fools by R. Clifton Spargo; What the Lady Wants by Renee Rosen; Wintering by Kate Moses; The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin; Guests on Earth by Lee Smith; Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck; The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott; Tiffany Blues by M. J. Rose; Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan; and The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty.
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