Book · 1934 · Fiction

Tender is the Night

Name: Tender is the Night
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner Paperback Fiction (Simon & Schuster) · 317 pages

★ 6.9 editorial score

Dick Diver, a young psychiatrist, marries the rich patient he treated and spends her money charming the French Riviera. Fitzgerald tracks the exact cost of being the most delightful man in the room.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Relationships Love affairs Alcoholism

Setting

France

Time

1934Depicts Roaring TwentiesDepicts 1920s

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