{"product_id":"z-9781250028655","title":"Z","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"When I saw that Amazon Prime was unveiling its original pilot for \u003ci\u003eZ\u003c\/i\u003e, a biographical series based on Therese Anne Fowler's novel about Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, I raised a wary eyebrow. . . But I was wrong, oh me of little faith. . .  I]t's an enveloping period piece, perfectly cast, and I would like to see the pilot green-lighted into a series so that we can see this romance go up like a rocket with one loud champagne pop and strew debris across mansion lawns and luxury hotel lobbies in its transcontinental path.\" \u003ci\u003e--Vanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined, Look closer...and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the \"ungettable\" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise, \u003c\/i\u003e to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel--and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera--where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything seems new and possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e Zelda, other than the wife of a famous--sometimes infamous--husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott's, too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250028655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.59h x 6.64w x 1.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2012 pg. 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2012 pg. 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2013 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2013 pg. 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2013 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013 pg. 34 - Excellent\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/29\/2013 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/21\/2013 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/24\/2013 pg. 85\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Therese Anne Fowler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648506785948,"sku":"9781250028655","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a68bf1b4-f896-4739-89c1-973fdd0fc3ac.jpg?v=1603870230","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/z-9781250028655","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}