Kendall Taylor (1)

I have been a fan of [a:F. Scott Fitzgerald|3190|F. Scott Fitzgerald|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1427040571p2/3190.jpg] for most of my life. I have only read [b:The Great Gatsby|4671|The Great Gatsby|F. Scott Fitzgerald|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1490528560s/4671.jpg|245494] but I plan on reading his other novels. Besides the novels he wrote, what I find most interesting about him is his life and his marriage to [a:Zelda Fitzgerald|28243|Zelda Fitzgerald|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1427041106p2/28243.jpg].
The story of their marriage continues to interest me.
After reading this book, I'm convinced that well he may have been a great writer, he wasn't always a great man or the best husband.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in knowing more about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, or their troubled marriage.… (plus d'informations)

3.5 I've never read a biography of either of the Fitzgeralds. What I know about them comes from various eotkd of fiction, either by or about them, do this provided me with much information I did not know. I knew Scott was an alcoholic, that Zelda was wild, and that she had mental problems, also that they both died very young. So reading that Scott was as wild as Zelda, was partly or maybe more so responsible for Zelda's mental state, and that their marriage was not a great love story. In fact, they were not good for each other, poisonous may be more accurate. Felt so for their poor daughter. Also never knew how much of their life, Zelda's words, Scott put into his fiction.

Coming across the name Bleuler again was another one of those strange book coincidence, I seem to be running into more and more lately. I had never heard of this learned man of psychiatry until I recently encountered his name in the book , Inkspots. All the leading men of the time tried to treat Zelda at one time or another. I came away from this book, with a deep sympathy for Zelda, of course one could tell the author also felt for her. She was so lost, so young, and didn't have anyone to as ctually guide her.

Whenever I read books featuring The greats from the jazz Age, I am always amazed at the prodigious amounts of alcohol they consumed. How they moved from place to place, traveling everywhere, constantly broke. It is amazing that they managed to pen many of the books we now call classics. This book was well put together, interesting yet easy to read, not exactly narrative style, but I never found it dry. A very informative look at this time and the two people who live on in their books.

ARC from Netgalley.… (plus d'informations)