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Zelda Fitzgerald

The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess

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Zelda Fitzgerald

By: Sally Cline
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
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Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper." Their romance transformed a symbol of glamour and spectacle of the Jazz Age. When Zelda cracked up, not long after the stock market crash of 1929, Scott remained loyal to her through a nightmare of later breakdowns and final madness.

Sally Cline brings us a trenchantly authentic voice through Zelda's own highly autobiographical writings and hundreds of letters she wrote to friends and family, publishers and others. New medical evidence and interviews with Zelda's last psychiatrist suggest that her "insanity" may have been less a specific clinical condition than the product of the treatment she endured for schizophrenia and her husband's devastating alcoholism. In narrating Zelda's tumultuous life, Cline vividly evokes the circle of Jazz Age friends that included Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, and H. L. Mencken. Her exhaustive research and incisive analysis animate a profoundly moving portrait of Zelda and provide a convincing context to the legacy of her tragedy.

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What was one of the most memorable moments of Zelda Fitzgerald?

Her childhood

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I knew nothing going into the book, had heard that the Great Gadsby was written about her, but there were so many WTF moments that made you angry, then sad, then happy. good book for travel.

If You Know Nothing About Her, Give This A Try

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Such a well written and researched biography of Zelda Fitzgerald. But were there no editors listening to the narrator?
Scott Fitzgerald, she read, “sat robbed on the bed“ when clearly the meaning was that he sat in his robe on the bed – he was robed.
At an art show of Zelda she noted a number of people who were looking at her work and said they “ compromised” most of the buyers.
The only words she could have wanted was “comprised.“
I understand that some of the words were archaic and not in use today, but surely audible has an editor who would have listened to this and heard the many errors.
This seems far below the audible standards of other books I have listened to.

Narrator ruined the book

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This is a terrific story but a bit depressing how Scott treated, and stole (never credited) from Zelda. And how he drank himself to death. But it’s a great character story that includes the personalities of the day including Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and the rest of the Jazz Age. Zelda was born with the crazy seed, Scott fertilized it.

Zelda was Scott Fitzgerald’s Shooting Star

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I loved this book, it made me cry. The last time I cried was when my beloved golden died.
For many years I researched my own family history to find a connection from my own great grandfather to F. Scott, I never did. The only connection we will ever have is a great love for Zelda

Graceful loving tribute

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I liked that the author found Zelda's relevance and brought out the story of her life.

Zelda's tragic treatment of her mental illness

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