Z: A Novel Of Zelda Fitzgerald

Description for Z: A NOVEL OF ZELDA FITZGERALD by Therese Anne Fowler: "Picture a late-May morning in 1918, a time when Montgomery wore her prettiest spring dress and finest floral perfume?Çösame as I would wear that evening?Ǫ" Thus begins the story of beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre on the day she meets Lieutenant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at a country club dance. Fitzgerald isn?ÇÖt rich or settled; no one knows his people; and he wants, of all things, to be a writer in New York. No matter how wildly in love they may be, Zelda?ÇÖs father firmly opposes the match. But when Scott finally sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Zelda defies her parents to board a train to New York and marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick?ÇÖs Cathedral. Life is a sudden whirl of glamour and excitement: Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel?Çöand his beautiful, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, trades in her prov