Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Classics & Modern Classics | Hardback Published on: 08/09/2016
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Synopsis

Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, Tender is the Night explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It 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.

F. Scott 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.

This stunning Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Tender is the Night features an afterword by Ned Halley.

  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781509826377
  • Number of pages: 424
  • Weight: 232g
  • Dimensions: 157 x 100 x 26 mm