"Fitzgerald wrote the confessions of a child of his time, and in them the sources of power were passionate love and the new woman, whose face was Zelda's'- André Le Vot
To the just fashionable French Riviera come Dick and Nicole Diver- handsome, rich, glamorous and enormous fun. Their dinners are legend, their atmosphere magnetic, their intelligence fine.
But something is wrong. Nicole has a secret and Dick a weakness Together they head towards the rocks on which their lives crash- and only one of them really survives.
"It makes me very sad largely because of the beautiful, beautiful writing wrote Zelda to Scott of Tinder in the Night. In it Fitzgerald had distilled much of their life, and the knowledge of the wrecked, fabulous Fitzgeralds adds
poignancy