Showing results for "Zelda" in Genre Fiction

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois—that explores three generations of a family trying to overcome trials and trauma and...

For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret. But if the public don’t want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match? The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born.

Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender Is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessions of a famous, slightly doomed glamour girl of the affluent 1920s, which captures the spirit of an era.

Lauretta Blom is al jare lank dolgelukkig in die rol van ma en eggenoot in haar pynlik netjiese wit-en-beige droomhuis. Maar een Donderdagoggend laat die skynbaar onbenullige optrede van haar man haar gedagtes oortyd werk. Gou voel dit asof al die sekerhede in haar lewe wankel. Retta begin dinge doen wat sy nooit vooheen sou oorweeg het nie. ’n Road trip Kaap toe lei tot onverwagse ontdekkings–nie net oor haarself nie, maar ook oor Tobias, die man met wie sy ses-en-twintig jaar getroud is.

"Preferirei di no" ripete Bartleby, il famoso scrivano di Melville, per tutto il corso del romanzo che lo vede protagonista. A differenza di lui, condizionata anche da tutti i sì delle generazioni di donne che l'hanno preceduta, l'autrice di queste pagine a dire di no fa una fatica tremenda. Come fai a dire di no a tuo padre che adori, ma vorrebbe fare di te la nuova stella del calcio anche se tu non ne vuoi sapere? O al nuovo incarico che arriva dal tuo datore di lavoro, anche se ti paga costantemente in ritardo?

Frech, abenteuerlustig und extravagant: Kaum eine andere Frau verkörpert die Goldenen Zwanzigerjahre so sehr wie Zelda Fitzgerald. Mit ihrem Ehemann F. Scott Fitzgerald führte sie ein ausschweifendes, turbulentes Leben, das sie am Ende zerstörte. Ihre Erzählungen führen mitten hinein in die glamouröse und schillernde Welt der Tänzerinnen, Sängerinnen und Schauspielerinnen New Yorks. Atmosphärisch dicht und wunderbar sinnlich erzählt sie von der hohen Kunst, sich selbst zu inszenieren, und von dem Preis, den man dafür zahlt.