Book Review #103
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald's lovely portrait of a doomed marriage, mirroring his own with his wife Zelda, including his alcoholism and her mental illness. Much of the novel is lyrically and floridly written, interspersing scenes of love, lust, betrayal, recrimination and loss, as well as satiric digs at the upper classes drinking and dining and sunning themselves on the French and Italian Riviera. While it is not on the level of "The Great Gatsby," his themes and use of language have sparked my interest to read "This Side of Paradise" and some of his other works.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald's lovely portrait of a doomed marriage, mirroring his own with his wife Zelda, including his alcoholism and her mental illness. Much of the novel is lyrically and floridly written, interspersing scenes of love, lust, betrayal, recrimination and loss, as well as satiric digs at the upper classes drinking and dining and sunning themselves on the French and Italian Riviera. While it is not on the level of "The Great Gatsby," his themes and use of language have sparked my interest to read "This Side of Paradise" and some of his other works.
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