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F. Scott. Fitzgerald
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Tender is the Night |
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Hardcover |
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1962 |
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B00AOACF9U |
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Charles Scribner's Sons |
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1.0 pounds |
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5.4 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches |
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REPRINT Edition |
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3 jennifer (USA: AZ), Lindsay (USA), Lindsay (USA) |
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3 Maureen (USA: MI), KateQ (Switzerland), Logan (USA: AL) |
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Product Description
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative - Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of "a modern Orpheus."
First published in 1934, Fitzgerald's classic story of psychological disintegration was denounced by many as an unflattering portrayal of Sara and Gerald Murphy (in the guise of characters Dick and Nicole Driver), who had been generous hosts to many expatriates.
Only after Fitzgerald's death was Tender Is the Night recognized as a powerful and moving depiction of the human frailties that affect privileged and ordinary people alike.
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