A mostly biographical book written as a fictional memoir about the marriage of Zelda to F Scott Fitzgerald during Prohibition and the Jazz Age. From their courtship through the sanitarium stays and the other separations, often for 'business' reasons, this novel covers the 20 long years of marriage Zelda endured at the hands of the drunken author probably best known for his prize novel "The Great Gatsby" which appears to be loosely based upon their life together.
Richly sprinkled with artists, poets, and painters of the time, many of whom chose to live abroad also, the story is an inside peek at how the rich and famous lived, drank, and cavorted as long as the money didn't run out.
Includes Fitzgerald's questionable relationship with Hemingway before their downfalls, including how Fitz mentored the up and coming Hem. The story also gives a close look at marriage and the avoidance of divorce in the early decades of America in the 1900's.
Zelda's 'incarcerations' and treatments at mental institutions in both Europe and America give an eye-opening look at mental health care a century ago.
A limited view of the feminist movement is given, though some of Zelda's friends were active in it, but, surprisingly, advances that affected women's sexuality and childbearing are covered intimately.
A good follow-up read is probably "The Paris Wife".
Richly sprinkled with artists, poets, and painters of the time, many of whom chose to live abroad also, the story is an inside peek at how the rich and famous lived, drank, and cavorted as long as the money didn't run out.
Includes Fitzgerald's questionable relationship with Hemingway before their downfalls, including how Fitz mentored the up and coming Hem. The story also gives a close look at marriage and the avoidance of divorce in the early decades of America in the 1900's.
Zelda's 'incarcerations' and treatments at mental institutions in both Europe and America give an eye-opening look at mental health care a century ago.
A limited view of the feminist movement is given, though some of Zelda's friends were active in it, but, surprisingly, advances that affected women's sexuality and childbearing are covered intimately.
A good follow-up read is probably "The Paris Wife".
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