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The Fitzgeralds: the beautiful and the damned.(F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Literary Life; Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage)(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20030201
Author:Whittington-Egan, Richard

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Literary Life. Andrew Hook. Palgrave Macmillan. [pounds sterling]14.99 p.b. 194 pages. ISBN 0-333-73849. Sometimes Madness is Wisdom. Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage. Kendall Taylor. Robson Books. [pounds sterling]18.95. 442 pages. ISBN 1-86105-497-1.

Scott and Zelda, it sounds, and in many respects was, like a superior vaudeville act of the Roaring Twenties Jazz Age (Scott's own coinage) of America. And if the lepidopteran Scott has proved a difficult biographee to net, the even more fluttery Zelda is yet trickier to cabin and pin down. That, ...

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