“In a voice both intimate and expansive, tender and shrewd, R. ― Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Story of a Marriage Scott and Zelda, surrounded by the poignancy of last words, last things, become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. “Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. “Spargo writes with animation and fervor, a style conducive to the heat generated by his subjects. ― Tom Perrotta, author of Election and Little Children It's a real feat of historical imagination and novelistic empathy. Luckily, Spargo is more than just brave - Beautiful Fools is a vivid and revealing look at two charismatic, self-destructive people, and the love that sustained and ruined them. “It takes a brave novelist to tackle Scott and Zelda, those mythic ghosts of the Jazz Age. Beautiful Fools, The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald
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