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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080307
Author:Melissa Benn
BOOK OF A LIFETIME
Tender is the Night, the book that caused F Scott Fitzgerald the most artistic heartache, was neither a critical nor a commercial success when it was first published in 1934. But its reputation has, rightly, grown and it remains one of my favourite books, suffused as it is with both the glamour and poignancy of Fitzgerald's own life: in particular, the failure of his marriage to the lovely, unbalanced Zelda and his acute sense of himself as a great and a ruined artist.
Tender tells the story of Dick Diver, a talented, charming young psychiatrist who marries fragile heiress, ...
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