{"product_id":"zelda-a-biography-isbn-9780062089397","title":"Zelda: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly\u003cbr\u003ecomplex love story.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed\u003cbr\u003ebiographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality of\u003cbr\u003eZelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zelda’s relationship with her husband\u003cbr\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald—tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing\u003cbr\u003ewoman, torn by the clash between her husband’s career and her own talent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZelda\u003cbr\u003eSayre’s stormy life spanned from notoriety as a spirited Southern beauty to\u003cbr\u003esuccess as a gifted novelist and international celebrity at the side of her\u003cbr\u003ehusband, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda and Fitzgerald were one of the most visible\u003cbr\u003ecouples of the Jazz Age, inhabiting and creating around them a world of\u003cbr\u003eexcitement, romance, art, and promise. Yet their tumultuous relationship\u003cbr\u003eprecipitated a descent into depression and mental instability for Zelda,\u003cbr\u003eleaving her to spend the final twenty years of her life in hospital care, until\u003cbr\u003ea fire at a sanitarium claimed her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncorporating years of exhaustive research and interviews, Milford illuminates\u003cbr\u003eZelda’s nuanced and elusive personality, giving character to both her artistic\u003cbr\u003evibrancy and to her catastrophic collapse. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eZelda Sayre started out as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, they rode the crest of the era to its collapse and their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a result of years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with Scott Fitzgerald. \u003cem\u003eZelda\u003c\/em\u003e traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband’s career and her own talent.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Profound, overwhelmingly moving…a richly complex love story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Milford’s fine book is itself a work of art.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Some of us are born rebellious. Reading the story of Zelda Fitzgerald by Nancy Milford, I identified with her mutinous spirit.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatti Smith, from Just Kids\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nancy Milford has sought to make us see Zelda as a separate person and, by that, the Fitzgeralds through a woman’s eyes . . . . A superb portrait.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888043978981,"sku":"NP9780062089397","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062089397.jpg?v=1730228017","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/zelda-a-biography-isbn-9780062089397","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}