Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy on AmazonThis novel was handed to me on a silver platter by my husband, who said, “You cannot die without reading this.” I keep coming back to it because it’s so detailed in recording the inner life of Dick Diver, the central character. His yearning—to save his mentally unstable wife, Nicole—just keeps unfolding. That aching is quite destructive but also so understandable. The word I think of with this story is ‘fragile.’ I was utterly struck by the fineness of Fitzgerald’s writing and the timelessnes...
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"This novel was handed to me on a silver platter by my husband, who said, “You cannot die without reading this.” I keep coming back to it because it’s so detailed in recording the inner life of Dick Diver, the central character. His yearning—to save his mentally unstable wife, Nicole—just keeps unfolding. That aching is quite destructive but also so understandable. The word I think of with this story is ‘fragile.’ I was utterly struck by the fineness of Fitzgerald’s writing and the timelessnes..."
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