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Zelda: A Literary Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Wife: Gifted Novelist, Jazz Age Celebrity, and Tormented Artist (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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ISBN: 0062089390
Author: Milford, Nancy
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Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richlycomplex love story. - New York TimesAcclaimedbiographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality ofZelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zeldas relationship with her husbandF. Scott Fitzgerald-tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairingwoman, torn by the clash between her husbands career and her own talent.ZeldaSayres stormy life spanned from notoriety as a spirited Southern beauty tosuccess as a gifted novelist and international celebrity at the side of herhusband, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda and Fitzgerald were one of the most visiblecouples of the Jazz Age, inhabiting and creating around them a world ofexcitement, romance, art, and promise. Yet their tumultuous relationshipprecipitated a descent into depression and mental instability for Zelda,leaving her to spend the final twenty years of her life in hospital care, untila fire at a sanitarium claimed her life.Incorporating years of exhaustive research and interviews, Milford illuminatesZeldas nuanced and elusive personality, giving character to both her artisticvibrancy and to her catastrophic collapse.
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Zelda: A Literary Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Wife: Gifted Novelist, Jazz Age Celebrity, and Tormented Artist (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

