![]() ![]() Milford has written a book about the Fitzgeralds that allows us to confuse ourselves with them. For even though the progressive revelation seems to be the work of fate, we are somehow convinced that it is also undeniably a product of our own efforts at comprehension: consequently, the act of finding meaning in Zelda’s experience serves to make that experience seem part of our own.īut that is not to say that Mrs. The book’s spellbinding power results from the way it makes the working out of Zelda’s tortured, enigmatic life a task which we ourselves must attempt to perform as well as a process which we helplessly witness. Nancy Milford’s biography of Zelda Fitzgerald brings us into an awareness of its subject so intense it seems unmediated by the personality of a biographer. ![]()
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