Tender is the Night

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, "Tender is the Night" 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. In "Tender is the Night", 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.

ISBN	1907360298	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9781907360299 (What's this?)	Pages	448
Publisher	CRW Publishing Limited	Published in	Cirencester
Imprint	Collector's Library	Height (mm)	150
Format	Hardback	Width (mm)	93
Publication date	01 Sep 2011	Academic level	General
DEWEY	813.52

"A tragedy backlist by beauty." "-- Daily Express""For Fitzgerald desolation is a precondition of the lyrical. Hence the most distinctive impression of Tender: A beautiful novel about failure." "-- Independent""It is one of those books that you read and feel a shift... the story is told so poetically and eloquently. It is one of those books that you read and think: if I could only remember that sentence -- it is so beautiful." "--" Sam Taylor-Wood

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