Save Me the Waltz

by Zelda Fitzgerald

Book Overview

This story is the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina, which captures the spirit of an era. Written in six weeks, this tale parallels the narrative of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809302551
• ISBN13: 9780809302550
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Astonishing

The brilliance of this mind writing at a stage of desperation is astonishing. She wrote the book in six weeks. Her husband Scott, tormented her upon finding out that she used the same material that he used in Tender is NIght. It is believed that he was furious with her and induced another breakdown. The first draft is lost forever, after Scott's editing. What remains is a sad and tender story of of madness and loss. The love between Alabama and David is not sugar coated as it is in letters that they wrote to one another. the Judge comes across as a Biblical figure. The second part of the book was one of the best written about dance.

Save Me the Waltz- Zelda's life in her perspective

Save Me the Waltz is a book worth reading. Although rather wordy and flowery in language Zelda pulls off a nice piece of work. The book basically goes through telling about Zelda Fitzgeralds' life only she tells it through the eyes of a character named Alabama. If you arent familiar with Zelda's life its quite the tragic story. Goes through her life in Alabama(the state), then her marriage to a great painter(portrays the role of F. Scott) and how they achieved stardom and then lost it all. If you dont like reading things that are very descriptive and use lots of metaphors and similes dont read this book. However it is really quite good and youll fall in love with all the imagery. The book is double sided, both portraying the beauty of life as well as its suffering. Really I do recommend.