Alabama Song (novel)

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Alabama Song
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Author Gilles Leroy
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Publisher Mercure de France
Publication date
23 August 2007
Pages189
ISBN 978-2-7152-2645-6

Alabama Song (2007) is a French-language novel by French novelist Gilles Leroy. It is a fictional autobiography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although Gilles Leroy always insisted the book was not a biography but a novel, it relied on a large body of factual research. It won the Prix Goncourt in 2007, one of the most important French literary awards. [1]

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  1. "Le Prix Goncourt". academie-goncourt.fr. Académie Goncourt . Retrieved 2011-10-16.