Save Me The Waltz
  • Published: 6 July 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099286554
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99

Save Me The Waltz

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6 Jul 2001
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31 May 2011
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31 Jan 2023
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Zelda Fitzgerald was dubbed the 'first American Flapper'. This is the novel that captured the spirit of an era.

'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'

One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century 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 strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.
  • Published: 6 July 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099286554
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
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Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948) was an American novelist and the wife of writer F.Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s. She wrote magazine articles and short stories, and at 27 became obsessed with a career as a ballerina. Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died in a hospital fire.

Praise for Save Me The Waltz

The only published novel of a brave and talented woman who is remembered for her defeats

Matthew Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some of her sentences are so bittersweetly delicious I could eat them

Jessica Whiteley, Stylist

A strangely evocative novel, episodic in structure, painterly in its description, almost hallucinatory in overall effect

New York Times
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