Paperback. From Collins Classics and the author of The Great Gatsby a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick, but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured, Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism and the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties. From Collins Classics and the author of The Great Gatsby a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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T�tulo: Tender is the Night (Paperback)
Editor: HarperCollins Publishers, London
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2012
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0007449488
ISBN 13: 9780007449484
Encuadernaci�n: Paperback
Estado: new

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From Collins Classics and the author of ‘The Great Gatsby’ a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale.

‘Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.’

Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick, but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured, Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism and the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ‘Jazz Age’ of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.

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