Tender is the Night (Scribner Classics) - Hardcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684830507 ISBN 13: 9780684830506

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

Book of a lifetime...suffused as it is with both the glamour and poignancy of Fitzgerald's own life: in particular, the failure of his marriage to the lovely, unbalanced Zelda and his acute sense of himself as a great and a ruined artist (INDEPENDENT)

[Tender is the Night is] the novel Fitzgerald liked best of the four he published during his lifetime...has been quietly assuming, over the years, something like the status of an American classic (THE NEW YORKER)

Book Description:

From the author of The Great Gatsby comes a beautiful tale of love, wealth and destruction - set to the backdrop of the 1920s French Riviera.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684830507
• ISBN 13: 9780684830506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320