Tender is the Night
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3.8 • 4 Ratings
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
A modern classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with an introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Amor Towles and a foreword by Fitzgerald's great-granddaughter Blake Hazard.
Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tale of a young American actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline.
Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked about books when it was originally published in 1934 and is even more beloved by readers today.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
You can generally count on Naxos to produce superb audios of classics but not this time. Trevor White gives a dull performance, though he handles conversation and dialogue better than straight narration and is not bad at accents. His emphases are stilted; he drops his voice at the ends of most sentences; and he reads every word so carefully he throws off the rhythms and phrasing, and thus the tone and meaning. A disappointing reading of Fitzgerald's last, most lyrical, most autobiographical novel.
Customer Reviews
Heartbreaking
Gatsby is better. Neater. Smarter. Like a child who you know will never look more perfect. It's a perfect novel carved in alabaster. But if you want a view into the soul of Fitzgerald this is it. The writing is still sublime but the novel is more emotional and dishevelled. More real. Brutally real at times. You can feel Fitzgerald's raw pain as he struggles to make sense of his love for unreachable, uncontrollable Zelda. Consequently, there aren't many characters to like - there's no nice Nick or heroic Jay, just a bunch of egomaniacs, but you still love Dick, even in his descent. This is the "Lost Generation" heartbreakingly rendered, and, since most of us are still lost, a work that still resonates today.