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I hope that, in another life, I was Zelda Fitzgerald.
In Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler has captured the most amazing and interesting character of a real-life person and spun a fascinating tale of what her life was like as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The voice of the book is intriguing and unique and I couldn't help but be drawn into the 1920's and wish I were living this glamorous, chaotic life...until it came crashing down.
Fowler has managed not only to grab my attent ...more
In Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler has captured the most amazing and interesting character of a real-life person and spun a fascinating tale of what her life was like as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The voice of the book is intriguing and unique and I couldn't help but be drawn into the 1920's and wish I were living this glamorous, chaotic life...until it came crashing down.
Fowler has managed not only to grab my attent ...more
Really interesting to get Zelda's perspective on what was really a crazy and unusual life. I loved the fact that all these famous authors, poets, composers and painters really did hang out with each other. Good descriptions of the ex-Pat life in the 20s and 30s. I have never liked Hemingway, the man or his works and this book also did not paint him in an attractive light. The last third of the book was hard to read due to the effects of alcoholism, and how Scott tried to control every aspect of
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Very well done book of historical fiction that "sees" things through the eyes of Zelda Fitzgerald. Thanks to Chris for being my audio reader in our car rides.
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By the conclusion, I enjoyed this book very much. It is a daunting undertaking to write a fiction imagining the experience of being Zelda Fitzgerald, particularly given the vast amount of nonfiction writing on the Fitzgeralds and the Jazz Era. Fowler succeeds, however, because of her obvious love of her subject and vast research. She succeeds on many levels, including couching part of Zelda's distress within the context of being a talented, spirited woman caught in the changing zeitgeist of a cu
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Fascinating!
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