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Zelda Fitzgerald
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2 Aug 2001 0099286556 978-0099286554 New Ed

'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'

One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.

(2000-09-14)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (2 Aug 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099286556
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099286554
  • Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 12.7 x 19 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 54,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Save Me the Waltz is worth reading partly because anything that illuminates the career of F. Scott Fitzgerald is worth reading-and because it is the only published novel of a brave and talented woman who is remembered for her defeats" (Matthew Bruccoli Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Some of her sentences are so bittersweetly delicious I could eat them" (Jessica Whiteley Stylist)

"A strangely evocative novel, episodic in structure, painterly in its description, almost hallucinatory in overall effect" (New York Times)

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Zelda Fitzgerald was the 'first American Flapper' and this is her thinly veiled autobiography.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars For the Fitzerald fans 2 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback
I believe that the book itself should not be read as a standalone, but as a piece of the Fitzerald's life. In itself is hard to read, especially the first part of the book, which is utterly chaotic and hard to follow. Ideas, characters and events are crowding to get a piece of the reader. But, in the second half you can enjoy the language, metaphors and all the beauty of Zelda's mind.

I read this after finishing all of Scott's novels and the love letters between the couple. And I feel it was the right order to do it, because it gives a very interesting view from the other side (Zelda's) of what was happening between them. While reading it I had in mind that she was hospitalized in a mental institution while writing it, so, in a way you can feel her emotions in the book, even if those had been altered by modification before the publishing.

My real regret is that she didn't write more, and that she was not sane when she did...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Who would dare to edit her? 15 Jun 2009
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Before I read this book, I only knew two things about Zelda: she was married to F Scott Fitzgerald, and she spent years in a mental home. So it was quite a surprise to see just what a brilliant and funny woman she was.
In her novel, "Save Me the Waltz", she writes with a hasty, confused style. She lingers over descriptions of flowers, then scurries past the key facts with barely a glance. She stuffs sentences with two, three, or even four metaphors at a go. It's a kind of literary bulimia. She loves to take a phrase and then reverse it to see what comes out. She invents words that we can sort of decipher from their roots or their context. She animates the inanimate so that cities, clouds, roads and trains all act consciously in her universe. For example, she tells us that "the sun... bruised itself on the clotted cotton fields". And yet there is something incredibly new and vital about her style. Its a frantic journey to pretty much nowhere in the end, but there is something wonderful about clinging on to her imagination for the ride. What this book seems to lack is any editing - but we can read her character through its lines, and it is quite likely that editing her would be tough.
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The parallel source of this book with her husband's "Tender is the Night" fades as the characters and plot unfolds. There is indeed interest in comparing the two, but Zelda displays her own style, passions and perceptions. There is a yearning and desperation in the main character, that provides both strength and pathos. This is a rewarding read, being both timeless in its themes, yet rooted scenically in its own age.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Overwritten and confused 23 May 2013
By nigeyb
Format:Paperback
I gave up reading after 140 pages. This book really isn't my cup of tea. I am surprised and disappointed as I love both The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night (Penguin Hardback Classics), and so was looking forward to reading Zelda Fitzgerald's perspective on some of the events that inspired Tender Is the Night.

Quite a few reviews I glanced at, before starting the book, suggested that this was more than a literary footnote, and was a good book in its own right. I disagree. It's overwritten, confused and vainly strives for profundity. I find it hard to imagine this book would have been published were it not for the F. Scott Fitzgerald connection.

The book is probably of greatest interest to people who have the time and the inclination to compare and contrast this book and "Tender is the Night (Penguin Hardback Classics)", and in particular the Riviera scenes. Although, that said, there are plenty of people who seem to find something more in this book.

Here's a couple of examples of the writing style:

"The swing creaks on Austin's porch, a luminous beetle swings ferociously over the clematis, insects swarm to the golden holocaust of the hall light. Shadows brush the Southern night like heavy, impregnated mops soaking its oblivion back to the black heat whence it evolved. Melancholic moon-vines trail dark, absorbent pads over the string trellises." p. 3

"A growing feeling of alarm in Alabama for their relationship had tightened itself to a set determination to get on with her work.
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