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- Publisher
- 1984; Edicions de 1984
- First published
- 2007
- Length
- ≈ 192 pages
- Reading time
- 5–7 hours
- ISBN
- 8492440201
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Alabama Song is a French-language novel written as a fictional autobiography of Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gilles Leroy always insisted that the book is a novel and not a biography, although it rests on a large body of factual research. It was published in 2007.
Source: Alabama Song (novel)
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