Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own.
From years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's ...
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Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper and Row, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Light green cloth on boards, clean. corners lightly rubbed. hinges tight. pastedowns and eps clean. text clean as new, photo illustrated, 446 pages. dust jacket intact, clean, worn with chipping at top spine, light edge wear at corners. good reading copy for the student, or the researcher, a very good biography. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060910693ISBN:0060910690
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Clean pages, no marks or tears, some reading wear with corners dogeared, notes on first page with previous owner's name, dirt soiling on edges, tight binding, all pages intact, solid. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Bookplate sticker on first endpage, otherwise clean and tight inside. Water stains on spine & back cover. One bumped corner. A little soiling & rub wear along bottom & top edges. Dust jacket quite worn with a few small tears... xiv, 424 p. illus., ports. 25 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Green cloth over boards with metallic purple and silver lettering. Includes bibliographical references. read more
"Very interesting. I was looking for some summer reading where I would learn something. And I did! This was an interesting read not only about F. Scott's life, Zelda's, but also how people with mental illness where dealt with in the 1930s and 1940s. Turns out that at about the age of 32 Zelda would live out her days in an array of mental insititutions.
Since it discussed their lives you could see many characters that F. Scott created who were in fact just taken from their everyday life. Strange that their child did not play a bigger role in this book."
"I never thought I'd even want to read about Zelda Fitzgerald because I read all about Hemingway first and he didn't like her and I admit that influenced my opinion of her. Then one day I read that she died in a fire in mental hospital. That piqued my interest so I bought the book and am glad to say was not disappointed. I still don't "like" Zelda, but do understand her as a person more because of this extremely detailed book. It is one of the better biographies I've ever read. F.Scott Fitzgerald is part of the package of course. After reading Zelda, I don't feel the need to read his bio, Nancy Milford has told me everything I ever wanted to know about him too. I like reading about the 20's and all those glamourous Americans abroud in the years between the wars. This book gives you all the details, and I was not surprised at all that none of them really had as grand a time as the pictures make it look. What a price they all paid for all the debauchery. I liked the book, it provoked a sense of pity for this fragile, mentally ill china doll that was Zelda. I won't read it again, not because it's not good, but because it is more of an educational book than one I turn to for pleasure. It is the most thourough book I've read on life between the wars."
"I never thought I'd even want to read about Zelda Fitzgerald because I read all about Hemingway first and he didn't like her and I admit that influenced my opinion of her. Then one day I read that she died in a fire in mental hospital. That piqued my interest so I bought the book and am glad to say was not disappointed. I still don't "like" Zelda, but do understand her as a person more because of this extremely detailed book. It is one of the better biographies I've ever read. F.Scott Fitzgerald is part of the package of course. After reading Zelda, I don't feel the need to read his bio, Nancy Milford has told me everything I ever wanted to know about him too. I like reading about the 20's and all those glamourous Americans abroud in the years between the wars. This book gives you all the details, and I was not surprised at all that none of them really had as grand a time as the pictures make it look. What a price they all paid for all the debauchery. I liked the book, it provoked a sense of pity for this fragile, mentally ill china doll that was Zelda. I won't read it again, not because it's not good, but because it is more of an educational book than one I turn to for pleasure. It is the most thourough book I've read on life between the wars."
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