- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9780099541523
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $24.00
Tender is the Night
- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9780099541523
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $24.00
For Fitzgerald desolation is a precondition of the lyrical. Hence the most distinctive impression of Tender: a beautiful novel about failure
Independent
A tragedy backlit by beauty
Daily Express
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
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