Zelda Fitzgerald
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
She was the original American flapper — dazzling, dangerous, and ultimately destroyed by the very era that worshipped her. Nancy Milford's landmark biography Zelda Fitzgerald resurrects the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the Alabama belle who married literary lion F. Scott Fitzgerald and became both muse and casualty of the Jazz Age, chronicling her meteoric rise through the glittering salons of New York and Paris and her tragic descent into mental illness and institutionalisation. Milford's meticulously researched and elegantly written portrait argues powerfully that Zelda was not merely a footnote to her husband's genius, but a creative force in her own right — a writer, dancer, and painter whose ambitions were systematically eclipsed by the demands of her marriage and the conventions of her time. Drawing on previously unseen letters, diaries, and medical records, the biography presents a searing meditation on gender, artistic identity, and the cost of living on the periphery of someone else's fame. First published in 1970 and immediately hailed as a feminist classic, Zelda Fitzgerald leaves the reader asking one haunting question: what masterpieces did the world lose when Zelda's own voice was silenced?
Author: Nancy Milford
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
She was the original American flapper — dazzling, dangerous, and ultimately destroyed by the very era that worshipped her. Nancy Milford's landmark biography Zelda Fitzgerald resurrects the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the Alabama belle who married literary lion F. Scott Fitzgerald and became both muse and casualty of the Jazz Age, chronicling her meteoric rise through the glittering salons of New York and Paris and her tragic descent into mental illness and institutionalisation. Milford's meticulously researched and elegantly written portrait argues powerfully that Zelda was not merely a footnote to her husband's genius, but a creative force in her own right — a writer, dancer, and painter whose ambitions were systematically eclipsed by the demands of her marriage and the conventions of her time. Drawing on previously unseen letters, diaries, and medical records, the biography presents a searing meditation on gender, artistic identity, and the cost of living on the periphery of someone else's fame. First published in 1970 and immediately hailed as a feminist classic, Zelda Fitzgerald leaves the reader asking one haunting question: what masterpieces did the world lose when Zelda's own voice was silenced?