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| Tender Is the Night | 
| Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 27586
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 068480154X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780684801544
ASIN: 068480154X
Publication Date: July 1, 1995
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More personal than The Great Gatsby September 3, 2008
Tender Is the Night is the story of a very dysfunctional American couple, the Divers, slowly disintegrating in Europe. Much less economical and symbolic than The Great Gatsby, it is a personal work. There are some problems with this novel, such as the coincidental way in which characters meet each other again across Europe and the poor development of some of the important secondary characters. However, one is convincingly drawn in to the initial magic of the Divers' relationship and its gradual collapse.
 not reading this August 20, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
You don't need to buy this book to know it sucks. Just click "look inside" on the left side of the item page. The book starts out describing some building. Ok, do I have to be a student of architecture in order to appreciate this book? The first paragraph is supposed to pull the reader in. I'm not sure I can express how NOT PULLED IN the first paragraph makes me. So superficial, mundane...oh, DO I need a 3rd adjective? I don't know what kind of "great minds" like to waste their lives away reading about the paint job of some building. Even if it's only a couple seconds, we as mere mortals DO NOT have even the slightest amount of time to waste. If I'm going to waste my time, I'd rather it be on my own terms, and not on those of Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
mastery of language July 28, 2008
I think you need a quiet place and state of mind to really appreciate this book, because it is not only the stories of these characters but the way they are presented...so incredibly tragic, poetic and beautiful. The author did an incredible job in inviting readers into the labyrinth of hope, despair, conflicts, alienation of the characters so intimately. Great book.
 Story without an ending July 6, 2008
"Tender is the Night" is a poignant story of a psychiatrist who fell in love with his patient and married her to stay close. Fitzgerald wrote the book under the impression of psychological problems of his wife Zelda; thus, the story is very real and sincere.
The book manages to show complexity of characters underneath the casual masks. Dick Diver (the psychiatrist) is not merely a great doctor; he is a husband as well, which means two most important things in his life (work and Nicole) closely intertwined. Nicole (the patient) is not merely a rich psycho; she manages to remain strong through her disease, understand and forgive her husband, and find a new, happier marriage, after Dick became miserable in his alcohol addiction. Rosemary (a young promising actress) does not have a crush on Dick; she loves him for the first and, arguably, only time in her life. Fitzgerald's characters are not ordinary people, as there are no ordinary people in life, in general.
Fitzgerald did not create a happy ending for the story, as there would be no happy ending in life. Confessions are made, and characters found their niches in life, but at the same time, there is some sense that the story is not over by the end of the book. "Tender is the Night" leaves the reader astonished, eager to know the end, at the same time showing that there is no end to some stories. They dissolve in the air and disappear slowly, as the letters from Dick to Nicole.
Tough Times on the Riviera April 23, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Not the most cohesive of Fitzgerald's work, Tender is the Night does deliver on Fitzgerald's beautiful prose and heartbreaking characterizations. The novel explores the disintegration of a promising young American doctor whose idealism comes under the crushing weight of hard capitalistic power. At times it becomes difficult to believe in the main character's steady decline since early in the novel he is depicted as so brilliant and thoughtful. However, Fitzgerald tries (and generally succeeds) in making the argument that American idealism is a fragile thing and not impervious to the destructive power of money.
Donald Gallinger is the author of The Master Planets
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