Tender Is The Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friends copy of Tender Is the Night If you liked The Great Gatsby for Gods sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith. Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching wealthy and dangerously unstable mental patient Nicole who becomes his wife; and the beautiful harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness.