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Ratings: ★★★★☆ (4.4 / 5)
Genre: Literary Fiction, American Literature, Modernist Fiction

Book Review:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the chronicler of the Jazz Age, left us one of his most beautiful and heartbreaking novels in Tender is the Night. Set on the glamorous French Riviera in the 1920s, it is a story of love, wealth, and disintegration—a portrait of the ''Lost Generation'' at its most dazzling and desperate.

The novel centers on Dick and Nicole Diver, an American couple who seem to have it all. Dick is a brilliant psychiatrist, Nicole a beautiful and wealthy patient he has married. They live a life of elegance and ease, surrounded by friends and admirers. But beneath the surface, their marriage is fraying. Dick's career is fading, Nicole's mental health is fragile, and the arrival of a young American actress, Rosemary Hoyt, threatens to unravel everything.

Fitzgerald wrote with unparalleled insight into the lives of the rich and glamorous. He knew their world from the inside, and he captured both its allure and its emptiness. Dick Diver is one of his most complex creations—charming, intelligent, and ultimately tragic, a man who gives everything to others and loses himself in the process.

The novel is also deeply autobiographical. Fitzgerald was struggling with his wife Zelda's mental illness and his own alcoholism while writing it, and those struggles inform every page. The result is a work of raw emotion and profound beauty.

This Collins Classics edition includes features to enhance your reading: a fascinating insight into the author's life and times, and a guide to key themes and phrases.

Tender is the Night may not be as famous as The Great Gatsby, but many readers consider it Fitzgerald's finest achievement. It is a novel to savor, to ponder, and to cherish. Highly recommended.