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Tender is the night

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The carefree swirl of the Jazz Age ... and the tragic romance of Dick and Nicole Diver. Fitzgerald's 'favorite novel' is the story of their passionate love affair and their life as the perfect Jazz Age couple. He's an idealistic American psychiatrist, full of charm and a promising career. She's an extraordinarily beautiful and wealthy mental patient being treated at a Swiss sanitarium. They fall in love and marry. Unfortunately, her shameful and tragic past continually forces him to be both doctor and husband. He can't. And though they love each other, he eventually has an affair with a Hollywood starlet, dooming their marriage and setting the stage for his disintegration and loss of self.

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Series Title

Penguin classics

Call Number

A F FIT t

Publisher

London : Penguin Books., 2000

Collation

357 p. ; 20 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780141183596

Classification

F

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Edition

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Subject(s)

Fiction
Romance fiction
France--Riviera
Wealth--Moral and ethical aspects
Psychiatrists
American fiction

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Statement of Responsibility

F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. by by Arnold Goldman.

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