Penguin Designer Classics: Tender is the Night: A Romance - Hardcover

Scott Fitzgerald, F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713999500 ISBN 13: 9780713999501

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of Tender is the Night published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by the leading British photographer, Sam Taylor-Wood. Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes RosemaryHoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams

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Review

On the 1920s Riviera the rich and hedonistic disport themselves, drawn by the brilliance and promise of Dr Dick Diver and his fragile wife, Nicole. No one is more infatuated than Rosemary, the beautiful young starlet who will become the main force in Dick's eventual destruction. There's a timelessness about the vacuity of this soulless set that makes the whole dismal story a powerful fable for our times, made totally convincing by the finely nuanced narration. --Rachel Redford, The Observer

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 Tender is the Night was his last and most painfully conceived novel. Based on personal experience (the schizophrenia of his wife, Zelda, his affair with a Hollywood actress and the time they spent in Paris, Switzerland and on the Cote d'Azur), it is a sad but hauntingly beautiful exploration of the way in which a needy person leaches the spirit out of a strong one. Dick and his wife Nicole seem to be the most glamorous of couples, but gradually the tragic secrets of their past emerge. Trevor White reads with subtly shifting pace and complete command. --Christina Hardyment, The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0713999500
• ISBN 13: 9780713999501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Arnold Goldman