Tender is the Night
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3.9 • 163 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
The marriage between a respected doctor and his bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable patient slowly collapses under the weight of obsession, vanity, and existential malaise in this modern classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American 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 of the year when it was originally published in 1934 and is even more beloved by readers today for its examination of beauty and decay.
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
Could not get into it
I tried very hard but I could not get into the Fitzgerald's rambling, dreamlike style. It seems less of a story and more like writing for writing's sake.
Beautiful writing to the depths
A book that lacked suspense at times, but made up for it in eloquence, wit, & a message that lies somewhere in reality with a facade of the romantic. It is what a life could turn out to be - one that I will learn from what is fulfilling or what is not. Tender is the Night is not a must read, unless of course you are a person who feels the deep desire to be needed, to help others, & to be loved...
another classic by Fitzgerald.
beautiful.