Save Me the Waltz (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Zelda Sayre
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical romance
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: Alabama, New York, France, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Alabama Beggs, David Knight, Bonnie Knight, Judge Austin Beggs, “Miss Millie” Beggs, Dixie Beggs, Joan Beggs, Jacques Chevre-Feuille, Madame
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, France or French people, Love or romance, Marriage, Painting or painters, Alabama, Italy or Italians, Women’s rights, Ballet or ballet dancers
- Locales: France, New York, Alabama, Italy
The Novel
Save Me the Waltz, according to its author, derives its title from a Victor record catalog, and it suggests the romantic glitter of the life which F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald lived and which Scott’s novels have so indelibly written into American literary and cultural history.
Divided into four chapters, each of which is further divided into three parts, the novel is a chronological narrative of four periods in the lives of Alabama and David Knight, names that are but thin disguises for their real-life counterparts. The four chapters...
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