Tender is the Night
Tender is the Night is the fourth novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first sold in 1934.
Plot summary
Dick Diver is a doctor who gets married to his patient Nicole. They spend some time in France and Switzerland but their marriage falls apart and they get a divorce.
Tender Is The Night Media
The French Riviera serves as the setting for the first third of the novel.
Ernest Hemingway believed that the negative reaction by literary critics towards Fitzgerald's novel stemmed from Depression-era America's reaction to Fitzgerald's status as a symbol of Jazz Age excess.