Z A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald First Edition later printing

New York: St. Martin's Griffin. Near Fine. 2013. First Edition; Trade Paperback. 9781250028662 . Faint wear to covers; Large trade paperback, with fold-over flaps. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages . "They were, arguably, the first celebrity couple of the modern age, Jazz-era avatars running wild in a new century. She was a precocious, spoiled Southern belle and bad girl; he was a Midwesterner and Princeton dropout who had turned his experience into the novel “This Side of Paradise.” In the 1920s, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald careered through New York City and Great Neck, Paris and the South of France, leaving in their wake a trail of splintered Champagne glasses and glittering bons mots. Their tragic, slow-motion falls — she to madness and a series of mental institutions, he to alcohol and an indifferent public — seemed inevitable, and drawn from the pages of one of his novels. She was reckless to the point of oddity; he always drank like a professional, collapsing the arc from charming to churlish early on." excerpt NYTIMES review Penelope Green