by Gilles Leroy · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070359844
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«Alabama Song» is the novel by Gilles Leroy, published by Folio in paperback (218 pages, in French).
The novel recreates the story of Zelda Sayre, a young Southern woman who meets Scott Fitzgerald. Together they become a celebrated couple in 1920s New York, but fame and the excesses of the jazz age test their relationship. From Zelda's voice, it blends biography and fiction to address love, madness and identity.
Novel winner of the 2007 Prix Goncourt, originally published in 2007 and reissued in the Folio collection (number 4867).
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary French literature, interested in the lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Gilles Leroy is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel Les Maîtres du monde as the "Lycée Ducasse". His novel Alabama song won the Prix Goncourt in 2007.
