Zelda's Story (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Judith Mackrell | knygos.lt

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The fascinating story of Zelda Fitzgerald, the Southern belle whose spirit would inspire her husband, the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, to create his exquisitely modern heroines.

Glamorized, mythologized and demonized – the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. 'Flappers' is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signalled another cataclysmic world change.

Zelda Fitzgerald, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.

Zelda Fitzgerald is one of the six extraordinary women featured in Judith Mackrell’s acclaimed biography, 'Flappers' – and this is her story.