
Penguin Designer Classics: Tender is the Night
A Romance
F. Scott Fitzgerald(Author)
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Published on 26. October 2006
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-7139-9950-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of Tender is the Night published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by the leading British photographer, Sam Taylor-Wood. Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes RosemaryHoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 329 mm
Width: 264 mm
Thickness: 93 mm
Weight
1710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7139-9950-1 (9780713999501)
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F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) left Princeton University in 1917 to join the army. He is said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he entered a traumatic marriage which was to influence much of his writing.
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