Z: A Novel Of Zelda Fitzgerald: Therese Anne Fowler

When beautiful, reckless Southern Belle Zelda Sayre meets F. 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. And she keeps absurdly insisting his writing will bring him fame and fortune. 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 - at the dawn of the Jazz Age - is unimagined success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. New York, Paris, Hollywood and the Riviera are their playgrounds, where they join the the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed, Last Generation that includes Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy and Gertrude Stein. Everything seems new and possible - but not even Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous - and sometimes infamous - husband? This is Zelda's story - as she herself might have told it.