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Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair Of Zelda And Scott Fitzgerald (2013)

by R. Clifton Spargo(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1468304925 (ISBN13: 9781468304923)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Overlook Hardcover

review 1: Beautiful Fools is a poignant, heartwrenching, and tender portrayal of a couple who desperately try to hang on to a doomed love. Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald had risen to great heights, but the Great Depression and drink and mental illness have taken their toll upon their lives and their marriage. So, in 1939, Fitzgerald leaves his mistress and scrapes up enough money to take Zelda out of the mental institution for a vacation in Cuba. This novel spans those precious dwindling few days. Spargo's portrayal of this famous husband and wife is beautifully rendered depicting Zelda's love for her husband and her attempt to keep any bitterness against him for past faults like not taking her dancing seriously and for writing abouther. Scott on the other hand, struggles to keep his... more drinking at bay for his wife's sake, his reckless behavior, his lies, his secrets. This character driven story is a beautiful rendition of their lives, of lost love, of dying dreams, of the struggle to let go of the past. The author has given us an indepth look at the secrets and failures of this very fascinating couple.
review 2: Chronicles The Fitzgeralds' last vacation together. Though the book is not particularly well written, the context makes it worthwhile, as we know what happens so soon after the story ends. It is hard to read about Fitzgeralds' trouble with his lungs and excessive drinking without thinking forward to his early death by heart attack, or to read descriptions of Zelda's lapses into mania without the depressing thought that she's later to die in a fire while trapped in her room in a mental institution. As for the writing itself? It's perfectly mediocre and the author doesn't do the setting of Cuba justice, though he does maintain a moderately fair balance, avoiding a side in the Scott/Zelda debate. less

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