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Tender is the Night: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation' (Read & Co. Classics Edition) Hardcover – October 21, 2022

by F Scott Fitzgerald (Author)
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Lyrical, tragic, and hauntingly beautiful, Tender is the Night absorbs F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal struggles and mirrors the incredible writer's fractured marriage.

Dick Diver is a talented, successful young psychiatrist. He lives with his wife and patient, Nicole, on the French Riviera. Set in the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age, this novel follows the Divers as a beautiful actress enters their lives and highlights the dark delicacy of their marriage. Heavily influenced by Fitzgerald's own relationship, the Divers' romantic charade begins to crumble as Dick descends into alcoholism and Nicole struggles with her mental health.

From one of the greatest American novelists of the Jazz Age, Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald's final novel. First published in 1934, this poetic masterpiece captures the hope, idealism, and corruption of the Roaring 20s.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Read & Co. Classics; Read & Co. Classics ed. edition (October 21, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1528773306
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1528773300
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.81 x 8.5 inches
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'.

In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.

Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'

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Becky Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars Story without an ending
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2008
"Tender is the Night" is a poignant story of a psychiatrist who fell in love with his patient and married her to stay close. Fitzgerald wrote the book under the impression of psychological problems of his wife Zelda; thus, the story is very real and sincere.

The book manages to show complexity of characters underneath the casual masks. Dick Diver (the psychiatrist) is not merely a great doctor; he is a husband as well, which means two most important things in his life (work and Nicole) closely intertwined. Nicole (the patient) is not merely a rich psycho; she manages to remain strong through her disease, understand and forgive her husband, and find a new, happier marriage, after Dick became miserable in his alcohol addiction. Rosemary (a young promising actress) does not have a crush on Dick; she loves him for the first and, arguably, only time in her life. Fitzgerald's characters are not ordinary people, as there are no ordinary people in life, in general.

Fitzgerald did not create a happy ending for the story, as there would be no happy ending in life. Confessions are made, and characters found their niches in life, but at the same time, there is some sense that the story is not over by the end of the book. "Tender is the Night" leaves the reader astonished, eager to know the end, at the same time showing that there is no end to some stories. They dissolve in the air and disappear slowly, as the letters from Dick to Nicole.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good writing, awful book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2023
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The writing in this novel is great, but the plot, and the abundance of characters, gets a little too confusing. The quality in production of this specific copy is fair. It's a book. The cover is pretty.
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Miami Bob
5.0 out of 5 stars Portentous Tale Cries Out -- Personally? [28][62]
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2007
Written in the 1930's after Fitzgerald's wife had suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized in Zurich, this book about a young aspiring psychiatrist and a young beautiful patient whose relationship commences in a Zurich sanitarium -- a story which eerily rings of Fitgerald's portentous relationship with his wife, Zelda.

The up-and-down relationship of the Divers resembles the Swiss mountain's furnicular - the cable car which has the ascending car counterbalance the descending car. As Dick Diver's character descends from a glorious future to an alcoholic future, his wife's (Nicole) character ascends from insanity to normalcy. By 40, Dick Diver is a ruined man. At 44, Fitzgerald died after having never returned to the heights of "Gatsby" and "Tender" -- which were amazingly finished in his 20's and 30's.

How autobiographical this depressing tale is may never be fully known. But, it definitely recites many of the realties which he and his European expatriate hob nobbers assuredly lived. The most troublesome events being Dick Diver's descent to alcoholism, something which personally plagued Fitzgerald and which equally plagues the easily loved Diver. Only when he drinks does his tongue spew venomously, and unfortunately too often to those closest and fondest of him.

What I love most about Fitzgerald is that pretension belies the characters, not his writing. He hides no hard-to-read symbols within his text. He is a master story teller, who infuses rich dialogue with the magnificent story to make his writing great -- 70 years later.

This is a classic novel written by a classic novelist.
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Alfred Johnson
4.0 out of 5 stars Paradise Lost
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2007
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Every amateur writer, every young writer looking to make a breakthrough, and every avid reader always is confronted when reading the novels of famous authors like the one under review here F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night with wonder about how much of a story’s plotline is based on the author’s vivid imagination and how much on autobiographical or self-reference. As for the subject matter-mental illness, alcoholism, financial independence and the decline of one’s professional energies- in Fitzgerald’s book for once there is no need for such guesswork because during the period just before sitting down to write this well-written and vividly described book his wife had been hospitalized for some mental disorder, he was hustling like seven dervishes to raise cash, and was letting booze get the best of him (which in the end would contribute mightily to his early death a few years later). This in any case is his last completed novel (The Last Tycoon was unfinished) and while I personally rank The Great Gatsby as his greatest novel this one ranks just a step or two below that classic. (Fitzgerald himself ranked this one as his greatest effort although I don’t what he based that ranking on).
As already noted above this story line, set up as a series of flashbacks and flash forwards over “three books,” is the story of the rise and fall of one Dick Diver from the heights of his profession as a up and coming young psychiatrist to, not surprisingly, a middle aged man sunk in a downward rut and sunk in the depths of booze before the end when he winds up in some upstate backwater doing yeoman’s work as a country doctor. It is also the story, maybe better a cautionary tale, about the pitfalls of bedding and marrying one of your patients because that is what he does with the other main character his initially mentally fragile wife, Nicole Diver nee Warren (that nee is important since she came from serious robber baron money and Dick was lucky to have carfare on his own hook).
Dick and Nicole “meet” in a European sanatorium where Nicole has been deposited by her father after many unsuccessful attempts to cure her affliction elsewhere (there is a strong suggestion of incest as the cause). In the process of “curing” Nicole they fall in love and are married. This gives Dick for a time anyway room to pursue his budding career as a psychiatrist dealing with obscure mental illnesses. But it also creates tensions when it came to financial matters as Dick wanted some independence and of course Nicole was used to having plenty of dough. Created tensions as well when Nicole would for a long while during their marriage and parenthood have periodic relapses.
Most of the story takes place in European settings, mainly France, since as was the vogue in the Jazz Age by the alienated post-World War I intelligentsia that is where they went to get away from low-rent grasping America. A lot of the power of this novel is centered on the isolated existence that these ex-pats’ live as they hunker down amount themselves with romances, liaisons and wasted time. Dick’s life though as he approaches middle age is spiced up by an interest in a young starlet, Rosemary, who has come to Europe with her mother for the grand tour. This affair will end badly as the pair part after a long cat and mouse playing and as Rosemary rises in the film world and Dick succumbs to his own hubris (and alcohol, okay). Worse this affair affected Nicole, led to a few of her relapses. In the end as Dick declined Nicole got stronger, got strong enough to have an affair with one of the men in their circle and eventually divorced Dick as he stumbles downhill and married him (reminding me of the flow of Gide’s The Immoralist where the wife declines after saving the getting stronger life of her self-absorbed husband).
The beauty of this novel is not so much in the now fairly conventional story line but in the vivid descriptions of the characters, of the landscape, hell, like his friend Hemingway, of the food and of his use of metaphor that is nothing less than astounding. Not Gatsby, no question, since that literary effort summed up an age in one person is but a very good description of the rise and fall of a man of that same Jazz Age. Read this one, heck, read all of Fitzgerald.

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Scott Fitzgerald famously noted that the very rich are different from you and I. Agreed. However, in this tale of the wanderings of a segment of the post World War I "lost generation" one could argue that some things do not escape even the richest. I would note the scars left on Nicole Diver, nee Warren, by her father's incestuous behavior. I would further note the extreme mental problems that caused not only for Nicole's life but for Dick Diver, her husband and a psychiatrist, and their children. If that is Fitzgerald's point it really hits home because this book at the very least reflects his own personal problems with his beloved wife Zelda when she went over the edge. As for the rest of the story line this is a typical Fitzgerald Jazz Age story, well written, but with no necessity to empathize with the plight of the other denizens of the story.
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lore
5.0 out of 5 stars lettura fluida
Reviewed in Italy on June 26, 2023
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Lui, Dick, psichiatra, incontra nel corso della sua attività clinica una giovane donna, Nicole Warren, sofferente di manie di persecuzione per aver avuto rapporti incestuosi con il padre. Nonostante il parere contrario di molti suoi colleghi, decide di sposarla, ripromettendosi di “restaurarle l'universo”. Una lettura trascendentale e al tempo stesso scorrevole, i dialoghi si leggono bene e la scrittura è pura, priva di fronzoli; Un ottimo classico
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Mrs Piglet
5.0 out of 5 stars Another beautiful book by the same author
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2022
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It is well worth buying in book form and being kept in a prominent position in your bookcase. I loved it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars No me ha gustado
Reviewed in Spain on January 3, 2022
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no me ha gustado, un poco pesado
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Terence Roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars For me it's a beautiful Scott-Fitzgerald novel
Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2018
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For me it's a beautiful Scott-Fitzgerald novel, like 'The Last Tycoon'. Read it, saw the great film with Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones too. Just wanted to keep a copy.
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4.0 out of 5 stars 印刷文字が、滲んでいるが、秀逸な作品。
Reviewed in Japan on February 7, 2022
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4.0 out of 5 stars 印刷文字が、滲んでいるが、秀逸な作品。
Reviewed in Japan on February 7, 2022
一見して、この商品、原本（初版）をリプリントしたみたいで、文字が太く滲んでいるように見えます。じっと見ていると頭が痛くなりそうです。すっきりした文字で読みたかったです。安く手に入ったので、返本はしないつもりですが、こういう商品は困ります。
　登場人物が多く、またフランス語が所々で使われ、読むのに苦労したが、ディックとニコルの間の特別な関係にローズマリーが入り込んでの三角関係が興味深く、ローズマリーの部屋での死体の発見時の描写の巧みさなど、読み応えと感動が残る内容です。
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