Tender is the Night

A tragedy backlit by beauty * Daily Express *For Fitzgerald desolation is a precondition of the lyrical. Hence the most distinctive impression of Tender: a beautiful novel about failure * Independent *It is one of those books that you read and feel a shift…the story is told so poetically and eloquently. It is one of those books that you read and think: if I could only remember that sentence - it is so beautiful – Sam Taylor-WoodNo one has written more elegiacally about America… Fitzgerald, like his revered Keats, was a compulsive nostalgic, locating happiness in the search for sensation rather than in its realisation; in the dream of desire, not in its fulfilment * Guardian *In just a snatch of dialogue or a few lines of description, Fitzgerald can evoke the happy, troubled and perilous balance of a group of friends… He has an acute eye and ear for the nuances of character… an exquisitely crafted piece of fiction – Melissa Benn * Independent *

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age - a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.