{"product_id":"tender-is-the-night-9780684830506","title":"Tender Is the Night","description":"F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night, \u003c\/i\u003e If you liked \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby, \u003c\/i\u003e for God's sake read this. \u003ci\u003eGatsby\u003c\/i\u003e was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith. Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night, \u003c\/i\u003e Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate. \u003cbr\u003e F. Scott Fitzgerald literally put his soul into \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night, \u003c\/i\u003e and the novel's lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934 shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another novel, and without knowing that \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e would come to be seen as perhaps its author's most poignant masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan's words, it raised him to the heights of a modern Orph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684830506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.49h x 6.41w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2009 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/19\/2011 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e8674 \/ Tender Is the Night\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.8 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639942901916,"sku":"9780684830506","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6b618256-0d91-45e0-9813-17628a236e76.jpg?v=1607546386","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tender-is-the-night-9780684830506","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}