There’s even a touching naïveté in the immoderation of their lives, a childlike awe in their encountering the confection of Paris for the first time. The early years are sublime, for both Scott and Zelda are high-spirited, passionate and deeply committed to each other.
(Her father, after all, was a judge in Montgomery, Ala.) Once she meets the handsome Scott, however, her life takes off on an arc of indulgence and decadence that still causes us to shake our heads in wonder. The Jazz Age revisited through the tumultuous and harrowing life of Zelda.įowler’s Zelda is all we would expect and more, for she’s daring and unconventional yet profoundly and paradoxically rooted in Southern gentility.
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