Pat D. (pat0814) reviewed on 6/26/2013 + 379 more book reviews

Therese Fowler has written a very engaging book from the perspective of Zelda Fitzgerald. It begins in Montgomery, Alabama in 1918 when Zelda is the belle of that very southern society. She is immediately smitten when she meets the charismatic F. Scott Fitzgerald and thus begins the saga of one of the most engaging and dysfunctional couples in literary circles. Scott's genius is eventually obscured by alcoholism and Zelda's spiral downward is well documented by historians. There are many fascinating relationships in this book among the literary elite of the jazz age - none more so than the Fitzgeralds' involvement with Ernest Hemingway. There are parallels in this book to The Paris Wife and the sad life of Hadley Hemingway. The excesses of the lives they chose eventually defined them. We will never know what further greatness may have been achieved both individually and as a couple had they made different choices or married different people.

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