by Gilles Leroy · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782715226456
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«Alabama Song» is the novel by Gilles Leroy, published by Gallimard in paperback (189 pages, in French).
It narrates the life of Zelda Sayre, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, from her meeting with the young officer in Montgomery in 1918 to her difficult role in New York high society. In the first person, Leroy portrays a woman who wants to be an artist and preserve her identity while supporting a husband dazzled by literary success, combining biographical and fictional elements.
It received the Goncourt Prize in 2007.
For readers interested in French literature, historical fiction, and fictionalized portraits of real figures from the literary world.
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.
