Tender Is The Night
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the glittering yet morally hollow backdrop of the French Riviera in the 1920s, Tender is the Night chronicles the seductive rise and devastating collapse of Dick Diver — a brilliant American psychiatrist whose charm, ambition, and fatal romantic entanglement with his fragile patient-turned-wife, Nicole, slowly consume everything he has built. F. Scott Fitzgerald's final completed novel unfolds as a portrait of a man undone not by any single catastrophe, but by the quiet, relentless erosion of identity that comes with wealth, privilege, and misplaced devotion. Seen first through the dazzled eyes of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, Dick appears godlike — the magnetic centre of an enchanted social world — yet Fitzgerald masterfully peels back this golden veneer to reveal the ruin beneath. Drawing on his own turbulent marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald and their years among expatriate American society in Europe, Fitzgerald constructs a psychologically rich and deeply poignant meditation on ambition, mental illness, class, and the American Dream's corrosive shadow abroad. His prose is at once luminous and elegiac, suffused with a bittersweet longing for beauty that the narrative itself systematically dismantles. A towering achievement of modernist American literature, Tender is the Night asks a question that lingers long after the final page: when a man gives everything of himself to hold the world together for others, what — if anything — remains of him?
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the glittering yet morally hollow backdrop of the French Riviera in the 1920s, Tender is the Night chronicles the seductive rise and devastating collapse of Dick Diver — a brilliant American psychiatrist whose charm, ambition, and fatal romantic entanglement with his fragile patient-turned-wife, Nicole, slowly consume everything he has built. F. Scott Fitzgerald's final completed novel unfolds as a portrait of a man undone not by any single catastrophe, but by the quiet, relentless erosion of identity that comes with wealth, privilege, and misplaced devotion. Seen first through the dazzled eyes of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, Dick appears godlike — the magnetic centre of an enchanted social world — yet Fitzgerald masterfully peels back this golden veneer to reveal the ruin beneath. Drawing on his own turbulent marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald and their years among expatriate American society in Europe, Fitzgerald constructs a psychologically rich and deeply poignant meditation on ambition, mental illness, class, and the American Dream's corrosive shadow abroad. His prose is at once luminous and elegiac, suffused with a bittersweet longing for beauty that the narrative itself systematically dismantles. A towering achievement of modernist American literature, Tender is the Night asks a question that lingers long after the final page: when a man gives everything of himself to hold the world together for others, what — if anything — remains of him?