But when Scott finally sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Matter how wildly in love they may be, Zelda’s father firmly opposes the People and he wants, of all things, to be a writer in New York. Fitzgerald isn’t rich or settled no one knows his On the day she meets Lieutenant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at aĬountry club dance.
Morning in 1918, a time when Montgomery wore her prettiest spring dressĪnd finest floral perfume-same as I would wear that evening…īegins the story of beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre I'll say it again, before reading this book I liked her, but after reading it I loved her. Not that Scott is a villain in this book, because he definitely is not, but Zelda's struggles make you root for her and I love that about this book. The sad truth is that he was like most men, who by today's standards, are incredibly chauvinistic, but I didn't enjoy seeing my idealized, wonderful, literary boyfriend ) in that light (even though I strongly suspect that Fowler wrote him with a restrained hand and that Scott was far worse than she portrays him in the novel). Fowler's sense of place is excellent, which, considering the sheer number of places the Fitzgeralds lived and traveled to, is an accomplishment in itself.Īnd finally, if you like Scott Fitzgerald now (or Earnest Hemingway for that matter), be prepared to not like him about midway through this book. But the reason I noticed them is because - in all other ways - Fowler does such a wonderful job making the reader feel like you are IN the past with Zelda. I generally don't even notice when things appear in TV shows or books that are from another time period, but I did notice a few in this book (notably Zelda using the term "trainwreck"). If anachronisms bother you, I'll warn you that this book has a few. That isn't to say that this book doesn't have it's issues.
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