With an Introduction & Notes by Henry Claridge Senior Lecturer School of English University of Kent at Canterbury Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the Roaring Twenties' A wealthy schizophrenic Nicole Warren falls in love with Dick Diver
- her psychiatrist The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage & their circle of friends
Includes:: a cast of aristocratic & beautiful people unhappy love affairs a duel incest & the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict Tender is the Night has a poignancy & warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing & the tragic personal experiences on which the novel is based Six years separate Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon the novel Fitzgerald left unfinished at his death in December 1940 Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood more or less continuously from July 1937 until his death & a novel about the film industry at the height of 'the studio system' centred on the working life of a top producer was begun in 1939 Even in its incomplete state The Last Tycoon remains the greatest American novel about Hollywood & contains some of Fitzgerald's most brilliant writing