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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life

By Linda Wagner-Martin

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
ISBN
1403934037, 9781403934031
LCC
PS3511.I9234 Z996 2004
Open Library ID
OL22595528M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1728584 bytes)
Pages
251\268
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Linda Wagner-Martin has created a new kind of biography of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: Zelda's story from her perspective, instead of her famous husband's. This is the first biography to tell her entire life story, describing what it meant to be born in 1900, and then to be a "New Woman" in Montgomery, Alabama. Featuring for the first time information from the newly available archives at Princeton, Wagner-Martin vividly illustrates Zelda's psychiatric landscape. Detailed discussions of the roots of alcoholism and infidelity are juxtaposed with the first comprehensive critiques of Zelda's diverse artistic accomplishments as a dancer, short story writer, essayist and novelist. This is an evocative portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional conflicts, a story with as much relevance today as it had half a century ago.

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