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Tender Is the Night

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068480154X
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Tender is the Night is a novel about the corruption that festers underneath the gilded surface of the rich and the glamorous. Fitzgerald's descriptive abilities are on full display here, painting a detailed portrait of expatriate life on the Riviera. But, as much as Fitzgerald's prose is a joy, the characters really make the book. They are flawed, often destructive to both themselves and others,...more
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The war is everywhere, at back, having rotted the only value system but money. What theme could possibly be less "outdated?" Can we honestly say that today's rich have solved the conundrum facing the Divers? Detachment, one of the key complaints about this book, was for me thematically significant. It demonstrates the ways in which great sums of money make claims on our virtue through the...more
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Much different, and slower, than the more beloved Gatsby, but still absolutely brilliant. If you don't appreciate it for its astute insights and wonderful character studies of Nicole's reassertion of her strength and Dick's tragic demise, you still can't deny Fitzgerald's incredibly lyricism and amazing way with words. As a whole, the novel isn't just a masterpiece in terms of its intelligence,...more
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This book captures what those moments that lead up to the end of those train -wreck relationships; the ones that end in one or both partners cheating. It showcases the vanities that can cause what was once beautiful to corrode and turn ugly. It is sure to have special meaning to anyone betrayed by a lover. Fitzgerald once told his editor that compared to the Great Gatsby, this book was "...a...more
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Boring, outdated ex-patriate story of life in Paris between the wars, focusing on a young American actress, a psychologist Dr. Diver and his wife, an American baroness with issues. Lots of drinking and gossip.
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  • ISBN-10: 1853260975
  • ISBN-13: 9781853260971
  • ISBN-10: 0684178176
  • ISBN-13: 9780684178172
  • ISBN-10: 0020199309
  • ISBN-13: 9780020199304
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