Tender is the Night - Softcover

Scott Fitzgerald, F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907360298 ISBN 13: 9781907360299

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2011

Synopsis

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. In Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture.

With an Afterword by Ned Halley

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Review:

"A tragedy backlist by beauty." "-- Daily Express ""For Fitzgerald desolation is a precondition of the lyrical. Hence the most distinctive impression of Tender: A beautiful novel about failure." "-- Independent ""It is one of those books that you read and feel a shift... the story is told so poetically and eloquently. It is one of those books that you read and think: if I could only remember that sentence -- it is so beautiful." "--" Sam Taylor-Wood

Book Description:

A heartbreaking American masterpiece of the 'Roaring Twenties' by the author of The Great Gatsby

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907360298
• ISBN 13: 9781907360299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424