Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon/F.Scott Fitzgerald

Literatura piękna, wydanie w języku angielskim.

Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe durinthe
'Roaring Twenties'. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with
Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage,
and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people,
unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession
of great wealth.

Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender
is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's
writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the novel is based. Six years
separate Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon, the novel Fitzgerald left unfinished
at his death in December 194 Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood more or less continuously
from July 1937 until his death, and a novel about the film industry at the height
of 'the studio system' centred on the working life of a top producer was begun
in 1939. Even in its incomplete state The Last Tycoon remains the greatest American
novel about Hollywood and contains some of Fitzgerald's most brilliant writing.