But she loses any sympathy I might have had at an important moment in the book, when Zelda characterizes all men as one of two types: those who will try to seduce her, and those who are afraid to. Her good looks, good cheer and exuberance make her everybody’s favourite, in her family and in her small Southern town. You can’t blame her for this - she was born into it. You know the kind, where mediocre actors ham their way through clichéd scenes written to impart information, not insight.Īt the beginning of the book Zelda is the sheltered youngest daughter of an established Southern family, stubborn and indulged: in every way a selfish, unthinking princess. This novelization leaves us with no more than what we get in one of those “dramatic reconstructions” the CBC used to be so fond of, when they bothered with drama at all. If you’re drawn to biographical novels out of interest in the subject, you might do a lot better with actual biographies, or even Wikipedia entries. Based on heavy research and with little imaginative addition, in practical terms, this means nothing really new is revealed here. Therese Anne Fowler’s new novel Z is a very careful reconstruction of the life of Zelda Fitzgerald.
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