- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781446418598
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Tender is the Night
- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781446418598
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
A tragedy backlit by beauty
Daily Express
For Fitzgerald desolation is a precondition of the lyrical. Hence the most distinctive impression of Tender: a beautiful novel about failure
Independent
In just a snatch of dialogue or a few lines of description, Fitzgerald can evoke the happy, troubled and perilous balance of a group of friends... He has an acute eye and ear for the nuances of character... an exquisitely crafted piece of fiction
Melissa Benn, Independent
It is one of those books that you read and feel a shift...the story is told so poetically and eloquently. It is one of those books that you read and think: if I could only remember that sentence - it is so beautiful
Sam Taylor-Wood
No one has written more elegiacally about America... Fitzgerald, like his revered Keats, was a compulsive nostalgic, locating happiness in the search for sensation rather than in its realisation; in the dream of desire, not in its fulfilment
Guardian