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Save Me The Waltz.

Save Me The Waltz.

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Save Me The Waltz.

by Fitzgerald, Zelda

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. In 1932, while being treated at the Phipps Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Zelda had a burst of creativity. Over the course of her first six weeks at the clinic, she wrote an entire novel and sent it to Scott's publisher, Maxwell Perkins. When Scott finally read Zelda's book, a week after she'd sent it to Perkins, he was furious. The book was a semi-autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' marriage. In letters, Scott berated her and fumed that the novel had drawn upon the autobiographical material that he planned to use in Tender Is the Night, which he'd been working on for years, and which would finally see publication in 1934. Scott forced Zelda to revise the novel, removing the parts that drew on shared material he wished to use. Scribner agreed to publish her book, and a printing of 3,010 copies was released on October 7, 1932. Although panned at the time of publication, the novel, alongside Zelda's artwork, has undergone a reassessment beginning with Nancy Mitford's 1970 biography Zelda. Michiko Kakutani wrote in 1991, "Zelda Fitzgerald succeeded, in this novel, in conveying her own heroic desperation to succeed at something of her own, and she also managed to distinguish herself as a writer with, as Edmund Wilson once said of her husband, a 'gift for turning language into something iridescent and surprising.'"

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Save Me the Waltz , the only novel by Zelda Fitzgerald, is a semi-autobiographical novel which covers the coming of age of a Southern belle named Alabama Beggs during the Jim Crow era in the deep South. Alabama proceeds to marry David Knight, who becomes a famous painter. However, his success does not equal the couple’s happiness; both become increasingly disillusioned by their marriage. Alabama, searching for something to call her own, becomes a prima ballerina. Unfortunately, her success is cut short by an infection, and the two return to the South, deeply dissatisfied with their lives and marriage.

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Bookseller
Raptis Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
137264
Title
Save Me The Waltz.
Author
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Book Condition
Used
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1932
Keywords
Save Me the Waltz First Edition, Zelda Fitzgerald First Edition, Zelda Fitzgerald Original Painting
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