{"product_id":"tender-is-the-night","title":"Tender is the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTender is the Night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTender is the Night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and, incomplete at the time of his death, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. After his death \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esaid of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a \"generation\" '.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTender is the Night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, you might like Truman Capote's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most wonderful writers of the twentieth century'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46205963862228,"sku":"","price":19.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/81ToFCJL9VL._SL1500.jpg?v=1744196130","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/tender-is-the-night","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}