Fellow blogger, Sophia, lounges on a nearby chaise while some bimbo dishes out some dirt on Zelda.
That's baloney! Sophia exclaims.
She knows better than to listen to that louse. Anyhow, he's zozzled.
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by Therese Anne Fowler
"I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we’re ruined, Look closer…and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed."
When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the “ungettable” Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn’t wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner’s, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.
What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel—and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera—where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein.
Everything seems new and possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby’s parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous—sometimes infamous—husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott’s, too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda’s irresistible story as she herself might have told it.
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* image source: for Flapper guest Sophia
I love it. You make me feel like I'm there. I keep waiting for installments. You've hooked me shug!
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DeleteMy dress looks so pretty for your post, Velvet! Thanks so much for including my flapper day dress. This is such an amusing series of posts.
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This book sounds fab. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
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No need to enter me but I tweeted!
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Ooooh... sounds fantastic! Added to GR.
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I added this book to my Goodreads. It sounds fantastic! I haven't read anything on Zelda Fitzgerald before.
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I added to my GR shelf!
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Added to Goodreads shelf:
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added to goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6666306?shelf=to-read
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I tweeted. :) https://twitter.com/lollibea/status/339892366125174787
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I added this to my Goodreads shelf and I'm off to tweet now. @patricia_sands
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