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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Alabama, David, Waltz entitled Save Me the Waltz?
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conversations.value: Save Me the Waltz: Save Me the Waltz, according to its author, derives its title from a Victor record catalog, and it suggests the romantic glitter of the life which Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald lived and which Scott\'s novels have so indelibly written into American literary and cultural history.\nDivided into four chapters, each of which is further divided into three parts, the novel is a chronological narrative of four periods in the lives of Alabama and David Knight, names that are but thin disguises for their real-life counterparts.\nSave Me The Waltz is the story of Alabama Beggs, a Southern girl who marries a twenty-two-year-old artist, David Knight.\nAs with Zelda and Scott, Alabama met David when he was in the South during World War Knight becomes a successful painter, and the family moves to the Riviera where Knight begins an affair with an actress.\nDetermined to be successful in her own right, Alabama decides to become a ballet dancer and devotes herself relentlessly to the cause, eventually achieving success.\nAlabama dances her solo debut in the opera Faust.\nThough outwardly successful, Alabama and David are miserable.\nAt the novel\'s end they return to the South when Alabama\'s father dies.\nThough she says otherwise, her friends from the South go on about how happy and lucky Alabama is.\nAlabama searches for meaning in her father\'s death, but finds none.\nWhile cleaning up after their final party before returning to their unhappy lives, Alabama remarks — an interesting contrast to the closing lines of The Great Gatsby — that emptying the ashtrays is "very expressive of myself.\nI just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled \'the past,\' and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue".