Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FSCOTT Fitzgerald in his latest book, "Tender is the Night," has transferred a case study in mental hygiene into a novel of wealthy American thrill-searchers on the Riviera. The performance has been a skillful...
Attempting a very difficult task, Fitzgerald has acquitted himself admirably. The contrast of the building up of Nicole after a bad start and the disintegration of Dick whose early start had been phenomenal is skillfully balanced and interestingly developed. "Tender is the Night" is well written, full of action, and true to life
...TENDER Is THE NIGHT- F. Scott Fitz-gerald-Scribner...
...critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel in which a son kills his mother. Readers last week were relieved to discover that Tender Is the Night is built to no such outlandish specifications, but closed the book with still unsettled feelings about the author. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who started well this side of paradise, is not yet through purgatory. Though he often writes like an angel, he can still think like a parrot...
...Tender Is the Night is a story of U. S. sophisticates abroad. Fitzgerald's are introduced as a little clique sunning themselves in agreeable idleness on an as-yet-unfashionable Riviera beach. To Rosemary, a naive cinemactress resting after her first success, they seem mysteriously charming. She is grateful to be taken into their closed circle, immediately falls in love with the head man, Dick Diver. But he seems to be perfectly happy with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and their two children. Other members of the set are Abe North, a musician who no longer works...