' Nobody has ever measured not even poets how much the heart can hold' One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first & only novel by the wife of F Scott Fitzgerald During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life & work In its own right it is a vivid & moving story the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s & an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era