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Tender Is the Night

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1607 Reviews
HarperCollins Canada, Apr 10, 2012 - Fiction - 322 pages

The bestselling Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final, and most autobiographical, novel, capturing in fiction the complexity, frustration, depth and ultimate destruction of love between Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Sayre, who was at the time of his writing confined in a mental institution.

A deliberately ambitious work, Tender is the Night is the compelling story of Dick Diver, a gifted psychoanalyst at the beginning of his career, his wife Nicole, one of his patients, and their holiday encounter with Rosemary Hoyt. In his narrative Fitzgerald experimented with point of view and chronology, and drew on psychiatric practices and experimentation as they related to his characters’ experiences.

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Nice prose, wafer-thin plot. - Goodreads
Heartbreaking... what a strangling ending - Goodreads
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful writing. - Goodreads
This is a book with a very weak ending. - Goodreads
Beautifully told love story. - Goodreads
I wish he'd kept the more moderate pace throughout. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Tinuccia - Goodreads

Before this book I read some Fitzerald's short stories and his novels: Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise. I really liked it so I thought this one'd be good too. I was wrong. This novel's about ... Read full review

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User Review  - Craig Herbertson - Goodreads

It probably should be a four star becasue of the excessive rewriting which give the plot a garbled feel but there are moments which transcend the masculine soul here. It's a book for every man who believes in his own potential. The understated ending is a gem Read full review

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About the author (2012)

American author F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) completed four novels--This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby--and wrote numerous short stories, including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." He is widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

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