Save Me the Waltz

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Save Me the Waltz is Zelda Fitzgerald’s semi-autobiographical novel that portrays a Southern woman’s tumultuous marriage and artistic ambitions in the Jazz Age.

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Save Me the Waltz canonical 4

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instanceOf novel
semi-autobiographical novel
author Zelda Fitzgerald
characterBasedOn Alabama Beggs Knight
David Knight
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception mixed
depicts Southern American culture
expatriate life in Europe
professional ballet career
firstEditionFormat print
genre Jazz Age fiction
Southern literature
autobiographical fiction
modernist literature
hasISBN 978-0-02-019985-4
hasSubject Southern women
artists
ballerinas
married couples
inspiredBy Zelda Fitzgerald's life
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
mainCharacter Alabama Beggs Knight
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFor being Zelda Fitzgerald's only completed novel
portrayal of a woman artist in the Jazz Age
protagonistGender female
publicationDate 1932
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
relatedAuthor F. Scott Fitzgerald
relatedWork Tender Is the Night
settingPeriod 1920s
Jazz Age
linked to: Roaring Twenties
settingPlace American South
Europe
theme artistic ambition
class and society
fame
female identity
gender roles
jealousy
marital conflict
marriage
mental health
self-realization

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Zelda Fitzgerald notableWork Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Fitzgerald notableWork Save Me the Waltz
subject linked to: Zelda
Zelda Sayre notableWork Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Sayre wrote Save Me the Waltz