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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Anne Fowler
I am so impressed with [a:Therese Anne Fowler|6521646|Therese Anne Fowler|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1356829408p2/6521646.jpg] as an author. She wrote this book as Zelda telling us her story in such a soft and beautiful manor. It truly was a tragic and sad story. I read [b:The Paris Wife|8683812|The Paris Wife|Paula McLain|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320545874s/8683812.jpg|13556031] earlier this year and was amazed at all of the talent in the 1920s Paris and how they drank their lives away. It was the same in the this story although I do think Zelda would have liked to have had a home and some bit of normalcy, which she was never going to get from Scott.
This is a perfect summarization of what Zelda thought of herself:
When I was young, I'd believed that it would be awful to try and try and try at something only to find that you could never succeed. Now I knew I'd been right: I was not a sufficient dancer, or writer, or painter, or wife, or mother. I was nothing at all.
At the end of the book the author says Fiction based on real people differs from nonfiction in that the emphasis is not on factual minutiae, but rather on the emotional journey of the characters. I've strived to create the most plausible story possible, based upon all the evidence at hand. She did an exceptional job. I will read more of her books.
This is a perfect summarization of what Zelda thought of herself:
When I was young, I'd believed that it would be awful to try and try and try at something only to find that you could never succeed. Now I knew I'd been right: I was not a sufficient dancer, or writer, or painter, or wife, or mother. I was nothing at all.
At the end of the book the author says Fiction based on real people differs from nonfiction in that the emphasis is not on factual minutiae, but rather on the emotional journey of the characters. I've strived to create the most plausible story possible, based upon all the evidence at hand. She did an exceptional job. I will read more of her books.