Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of "Tender is the Night, " "If you liked "The Great Gatsby, " for God's sake read this. "Gatsby" was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, "Tender is the Night, " is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness.
Product Details
Price
$18.99
$17.66
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Publish Date
July 01, 1995
Pages
448
Dimensions
5.2 X 7.9 X 1.0 inches | 0.74 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780684801544
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About the Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as "grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, and their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death the New York Times said of him, "He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a 'generation.'
Reviews
"It's amazing how excellent much of it is."
--Ernest Hemingway
"I will say now, Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise."
--John O'Hara
--Ernest Hemingway
"I will say now, Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise."
--John O'Hara