Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Author(s): Therese Anne Fowler

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***THERESE ANNE FOWLER'S NEW NOVEL, A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN: A NOVEL OF THE VANDERBILTS, PUBLISHES JANUARY 2019***

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & AMAZON ORIGINALS TV SERIES STARRING CHRISTINA RICCI - Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING


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


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.


'Utterly compulsive reading' Stylist
'Brilliant' Daily Mail
'Superb' Independent


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Therese has a BA in sociology/cultural anthropology and an MFA in creative writing. Her work has won honours from the Faulkner Society and Thomas Wolfe Fiction prize competitions. She was an editorial assistant and taught undergraduate fiction writing before leaving academia to write full-time. An Illinois native , she has two grown sons and two nearly grown stepsons, and currently lives in North Carolina with her husband. www.theresefowler.com http://pinterest.com/tworoadsbooks/zelda-sayre-fitzgerald/ www.tworoadsbooks.com/index.php/books/z/

General Fields

  • : 9781444761436
  • : John Murray
  • : Two Roads
  • : October 2013
  • : November 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Therese Anne Fowler
  • : Paperback