Description
Set in the South of France during the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night follows Dick Diver, a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist; Nicole, his wealthy, captivating, and dangerously unstable patient who becomes his wife; and the harrowing ten-year pas de deux they perform along the border between sanity and madness. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most ambitious novel experiments with chronology and point of view, drawing on early advances in psychiatry to explore the formation and breakdown of individuals and cultures. Intensely autobiographical, it portrays a caring man’s disintegration under the strain of his wife’s illness and a lifestyle that erodes his moral values, while Dick’s descent into alcoholism eerily anticipates Fitzgerald’s own fate. Initially unsuccessful when published in 1934, the novel later came to be regarded as perhaps its author’s most poignant masterpiece.
Information
Author: Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Language: English
Publication date: September 12, 2024
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers UK
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Classic literature in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 430
ISBN/EAN: 9781398539891