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A Good Neighborhood

Catherine — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 04:24:18 +0000

I’ve enjoyed Therese Anne Fowler’s historical fiction for years, especially her novel Z, about Zelda Fitzgerald. So, I was interested to see what she would do with a novel about contemporary American life—a topic that provides more extravagant fodder every day as the social divisions in the country continue to expand. A Good Neighborhood hits at […]

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A Well-Behaved Woman

Catherine — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:04:41 +0000

The Vanderbilt family is one of the great success stories in American history. Author Therese Fowler picks up the line with the third generation in her novel, A Well-Behaved Woman. The woman in question is Alva Smith—a 21-year-old with a perfect pedigree, but no money. Teetering, in fact, on the edge of outright poverty, until […]

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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Catherine — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:45:47 +0000

The lifestyle of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda have intrigued readers for generations as arbiters of the Jazz Age. Many of their antics were public knowledge thanks to a press that hounded them almost as assiduously as the paparazzi does to celebrities today. And while both he and Zelda were copious letter writers […]

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