Tender Is the Night

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Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it -- not me."

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."

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Not till I started the middle of the book then it started to get exciting. I was excited to start this book at first. The story started off somewhat slow. The ending did not turn out how I expected. Overall, I felt depressed after reading this story.

You'll love it from beginning to end and eventually fall in love with F. Some of my all-time favorite literary quotes and passages come from this work. If you love the works of the early 20th century, there is no reason why you wouldn't read this book and have it included with your adventure. Scott Fitzgerald himself. Be warned - haha.

Imagine a novel length fantasy written for a Hollywood gossip magazine. But I could not finish it. I tried to read this because it's a standard of the American novel in the 20s. That's what you have here. The characters are rich, spoiled, glamorous and fascinating to each other. But that's all. The writing is occasionally striking, but there is nothing in it that I want to read about. I think it was Hemingway who quoted Fitzgerald as saying "The rich are different from you and me." Papa's answer: "Yeah, they have more money." That sums it up quite well.

The book was described by the seller as in "very good condition" when in fact it was quite worn, and it took four weeks for it to come. I had emailed the sellers telling them not to send the book after May 26th and still they sent it to me June 2nd when I had already gotten a library version for my June 6th book club.

The novel maintains a sense of mystery in the beginning, and allows the reader to grasp a sense of the relationship of Dick and Nicole, and how the perfect appearance of Dick and Nicole masks their true struggles. Tender is the Night was a great novel. The novel is a partially autobiographical novel about F. Many have compared it to The Great Gatsby, however, I would say that this book is much more complex and interesting and differs very much from it. The novel is very descriptive and catches my attention through is vivid explanation of the setting on the Riviera, and Dick and Nicole Diver's home, the Villa Diana. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, and this emotional book becomes more and more intriguing until the last page. This book will be interesting to those who enjoy reading about the splendor of the 1920's and the beauty of the Riviera, while still analyzing a very wonderfully complex plot.