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Title: Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Bruccoli ISBN: 0-460-87791-7 Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Pub. Date: 02 September, 1996 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (87 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Tender Writing Indeed!
Comment: Tender is the Night is a somewhat lengthy, meandering sort of novel. Its facination comes from this very obscurity; a tightly written mystery-murder(The Great Gatsby) it is not. I highly recommend this book for its vivid portrayal of Diver's complexly layered relationships; with Nicole his wife, and with the budding starlet, Rosemary.
The author skillfully shuffles in the minor characters as well. FitzGerald's observations about the psychology between women and men /Americans and Europeans is ultra keen. His father's death, Abe North's death, his and Rosemary's quick but temporary liason, the fight with the Police in Rome, the illness of Mr. Warren, his parting with Franz and Kaethe, the antagonism between Baby and himself, the mental and emotional drain of Nicole's affliction, and his drinking... portray the minor tragedies that constitute life.
FitzGerald tells his story to us better than any other 20th Century American writer could hope to, and in a lyrical style that keeps the reader spellbound.

Rating: 5
Summary: A book of absolute genius
Comment: I first read this masterpiece in college. It impacted me greatly. To that end," Tender is the Night" gets my vote as the all time greatest American novel. Every private library must have this work of absolute genius. The author is gifted and is able to write great prose at an early age, with the publication of his first novel, "This Side of Paradise."

However, upon his return to the United States after spending many years in Paris with "The Lost Generation" F. Scott Fitzgerald finally completes "Tender is the Night." He tells the story of Dick Diver whose life and work tumbles because of his marriage to the wealthy beauty Nicole Warren. This book is heartbraking. Fitzgerald's command of dialogue and masterful understanding of human emotions shakes the soul of the reader.

Rating: 1
Summary: Terribly overrated
Comment: I struggled to finish this book. It is laden with trivial charactersand the plot drags on endlessly while Fitzgerald keeps blindly grasping for the magic he had before he destroyed his mind with alcohol.
The writing in this novel is sloppy at best, and, as he confessed to his sometime-friend Ernest Hemingway (see Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"), he often altered his writing for the sake of financial gain. This novel, which took over ten years to create, looks like the pained work of a man who has run out of gas. His focus was diverted by his alcoholism, his lust for financial success over artistry, and his wife's instability, and it shows.
The book drags on endlessly, and it looks like Fitzgerald is just trying to fill up pages (which he may have been, because Scribner wasn't happy with the much shorter length of The Great Gatsby).
Sure, there are a bunch of pretty sentences, and even a few unbelievable paragraphs scattered throughout, but good sentences don't make a good story, and they certainly don't overcome the weakness of these characters.