Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1896–1940 · USA
Why it matters
A brilliant psychiatrist dissolves into his marriage on the Riviera: glamour as slow hemorrhage. Fitzgerald's most personal and wounded novel; many who love Gatsby most come to love this one more.
At a glance
tragedypsychological novel
Difficulty 6/10medium pace317 pagesA deliberately scrambled timeline complicates otherwise lyrical, controlled prose.
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