Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TELEVISION DRAMA Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING With brilliant insight and imagination Therese Anne Fowlers New York Times bestseller Z brings us Zeldas irresistible story as she herself might have told it. . I wish I could tell everyone who thinks were ruined Look closer…and youll 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 years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long the ungettable Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isnt wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner and keeps insisting absurdly that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel This Side of Paradise to Scribners Zelda optimistically boards a train north to marry him in the vestry of St. Patricks Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.. 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 Gatsbys 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 Scotts too?