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<p><P>F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of <i>Tender Is the Night,</i> If you liked <i>The Great Gatsby,</i> for God's sake read this. <i>Gatsby</i> 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, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> 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. <P> In <i>Tender Is the Night,</i> 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. <P> <i>Tender Is the Night</i> is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangeme

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Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher
New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780684830506
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.83 / 5 (80,994 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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