![]() ![]() The two men were good friends in Paris just after Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” had been published, when Hemingway was still an unknown author.įitzgerald seemed to idolize Hemingway and was influenced by the way he treated women. If Ernest Hemingway’s accounts of Zelda’s clinging ways and mental health issues are to be believed, her problems were destroying the literary talents of Fitzgerald.įrom the viewpoint of Zelda, Fitzgerald’s fascination with Hemingway caused the rift in the Fitzgerald’s marriage. Their marriage, at first brilliant and full of energy and excitement, later became destructive. ![]() ![]() But the author also writes from the husband’s perspective, paying close attention, as well, to the time period and details of the Fitzgeralds’ life together. The story is told from the viewpoint of Zelda, who met Fitzgerald in 1918 when he was stationed in the military near Montgomery. Much of this historical novel, whose settings shift from Montgomery, Ala., to New York City, Paris and other European cities, takes place in the 1920s. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, outsized “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” by Therese Anne Fowler is the story of the love affair and marriage of F. ![]()
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