![]() ![]() ![]() She is fiercely independent, taking up passions and forging a path in the midst of a patriarchal culture-a culture that demanded a good woman to be a good wife who sat idly by a strong, successful husband. Here, Zelda tells her own story, drawing on personal experience and letters exchanged with family and friends. In Z, though, Fowler introduces a woman who is the epitome of flapper culture. She was just a crazy wife, so much so that she was committed to an asylum where she spent the rest of her days. She had an affair, she was ambitious, and she ate up all of the great writer’s time. In his writing, Zelda is depicted as the jealous wife who ruined the great F. But Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler presents another unheard side of Zelda. Zelda has been remembered in history as the lunatic wife, a common label given to unruly women. It’s easy to give blunt labels to any historical figure, but especially to someone as infamous as the wife of F. Zelda Fitzgerald’s life was split, in more ways than one. Cigar smoke–filled speakeasies, feathered flappers, bathtub gin delusions, drunken fights, stolen affections. ![]()
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