
From Collins Classics & the author of ' The Great Gatsby'
- now a major film
- a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale. ' Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.' Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s American Dick Diver & his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic living a glamorous lifestyle & entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France & becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick but he & his wife hold dark secrets & as their marriage becomes more fractured Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism & the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties.