Tender is the Night: A Romance
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. Shenton, Edward. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2330610
2nd printing (lacks A on copyright page). Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean and bright.
408 pp. Title page illustration and chapter headers and tailpieces by Edward Shenton. Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character -- lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative -- Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of 'a modern Orpheus.'
Price: $450.00