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5.0
"I was in love with a whirlwind."
Four essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald and one co-authored by his wife, Zelda. Fantastic insight into the Jazz Age and one of the most beloved authors during that period. The essays got progressively better in the order they are in the book, with "Early Success" finishing off the collection as a wistful and bittersweet reflection on the consequences of peaking early in life (which Scott believes he did).
I was slightly irritated that he always referred to Zelda as "the girl" and brought up the broken engagement multiple times, then made his wife sound like a different person than the girl who broke off the engagement. In his eyes, they might have been different people because Zelda broke his heart when she broke off the engagement and then mended it when she agreed to marriage after the publication of This Side of Paradise. This purposeful discrepancy occurred in both "The Crack-Up" and "Early Success" and I only caught it because I'm enamored with the Fitzgeralds.
Four essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald and one co-authored by his wife, Zelda. Fantastic insight into the Jazz Age and one of the most beloved authors during that period. The essays got progressively better in the order they are in the book, with "Early Success" finishing off the collection as a wistful and bittersweet reflection on the consequences of peaking early in life (which Scott believes he did).
I was slightly irritated that he always referred to Zelda as "the girl" and brought up the broken engagement multiple times, then made his wife sound like a different person than the girl who broke off the engagement. In his eyes, they might have been different people because Zelda broke his heart when she broke off the engagement and then mended it when she agreed to marriage after the publication of This Side of Paradise. This purposeful discrepancy occurred in both "The Crack-Up" and "Early Success" and I only caught it because I'm enamored with the Fitzgeralds.
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