Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald(1934)
Novelc. 320 pages
“Actually that's my secret - I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald(1934)
“Actually that's my secret - I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald(1934)
Dick Diver, brilliant young psychiatrist, marries his wealthy patient Nicole and is gradually destroyed by their life among the American expatriates on the Riviera. Fitzgerald wrote and rewrote it over nine years, through his wife Zelda's breakdowns and his own alcoholic decline, and the novel bears the scars. It is not as perfect as Gatsby, but it is in some ways more profound, a study of what Fitzgerald called emotional bankruptcy. The title comes from Keats's nightingale. The doom is present from the first page.