Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1410457494 ISBN 13 : 9781410457493

Synopsis

A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age celebrity in the literary party scenes.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

An often superb novel. (Independent on Sunday)

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 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)

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

A novel that is as hearbreaking as it is mesmerizing. Just magnificent. (Caroline Leavitt, author of PICTURES OF YOU)

Fowler renders rich period detail in this portrayal of a fascinating woman both blessed - and cursed - by fame. (Booklist)

Fowler's richly imagined portrait of the Jazz Age's literary royalty is a wonderfully engaging read. With crisp dialogue and vivid descriptions, Z delivers both a compelling love story and a poignant tale of a woman coming into her own as an artist. (Heidi W. Durrow, author of THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY)

From her youth as the belle of Montgomery to the heady early days of marriage to the inevitable breakdowns, Fowler chronicles Zelda's incredible life with sympathy and compassion. (Bookpage)

Fowler portrays a softer, more anxious Zelda, but loveable nonetheless, whose world is one of textured sensuality. (Publishers Weekly)

Présentation de l'éditeur

'If ever a couple ... became an era, it was F Scott Fitzgerald and his glamorous "flapper" wife, Zelda. They were the Jazz Age.' - Independent
'I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined... Look closer, and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.'
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.

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410457494
• ISBN 13: 9781410457493
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 621
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible