Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald · first published 1934

Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole struggles with mental illness. Fitzgerald began the novel in 1925 after the publication of his third novel The Great Gatsby.

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Genre:

Autobiographical

Original language:

English

Year page:

1934