"We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet"
Alabama Beggs's childhood was a sheltered one; she and her two older sisters were raised to be good Southern girls. But when her boyfriend, Lieutenant David Knight, whisks her away after the war ends, on his quest to become a famous artist. Alabama becomes the centre of New York City high society and the extravagant parties thrown by its members.
Written in the six weeks she was hospitalised with schizophrenia, Save Me the Waltz is a semi-autobiographical novel about one of the most renowned writerly love affairs: that between Zelda and F. Scott 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.
