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Tender Is the Night
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bookshelves: fiction, 20th-century-early-to-mid, worlds-lost-dead-and-dying, owned, grand-opera
Jun 11, 2007
bookshelves: fiction, 20th-century-early-to-mid, worlds-lost-dead-and-dying, owned, grand-opera
This is my favorite Fitzgerald book. I read it back to back with This Side of Paradise last year, which was an interesting experiment. I had the young, beautiful, self-confident Fitzgerald and the Fitzgerald of post-Zelda's craziness, dark dark alcoholic Fitzgerald. Besides showing obviously how much his skills had improved, it showed the sheer range he was capable of as well. This is a dark, depressing novel. Loss, loneliness, isolation, desolation. It does not end well. But the sheer power of the prose, and just how completely lost everything is here can't fail to get to you. The story is so tight, well put together, flows along without a hitch. It sinks you slowly lower and lower and lower until you're hardly aware of just how dark of a place the novel has gone. And then all of a sudden things evaporate, and there you are. Just like Fitzgerald. Wandering off the last page.
Really. I recommend it to everyone. Do give it a try.
Really. I recommend it to everyone. Do give it a try.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
July 1, 2006
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Finished Reading
June 11, 2007
– Shelved
June 11, 2007
– Shelved as:
fiction
July 29, 2009
– Shelved as:
20th-century-early-to-mid
July 29, 2009
– Shelved as:
worlds-lost-dead-and-dying
September 11, 2009
– Shelved as:
owned
October 21, 2011
– Shelved as:
grand-opera
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