Ldp Litterature: Tendre Est La Nuit (Paperback)

from PatsyMurray

If you have ever wondered what it was like to roam with the Fitzgeralds, the Hemingways and the Murphys in the 1920s, this book provides a good sense of what it must have been like. Only semi-autobiographial, of course, it is a book less about events than about how men and women can inflict emoti...

from copyedit52

Dick Diver, whom Fitzgerald introduces through the implied point of view of Rosemary, a young Hollywood starlet, resembles the author's more renowned and equally enigmatic creation, Gatsby. Except Dick actually does something we can get a handle on: he's a doctor who knows a few things about psyc...

from jmoncton

This is one of those books where it's hard to say you actually enjoy reading it, but by the end, you're glad that you did. None of the characters are likable or even sympathetic, but their behaviors really make you think and want to discuss the book with someone else. Definitely a good book club ...

from lydia1879

... so, apparently quite a few people don't like this book? But I loved it. I liked it probably more than I liked The Great Gatsby. And something really cool happened to me while I was reading this book. So, a portion of this book is set in Italy. I happened to be in Italy when I was reading it, ...

from KimMR

In 1932, F Scott Fitgerald was living in suburban Baltimore. His father had recently died and his wife Zelda had been committed to a psychiatric institution in Switzerland. He finally decided that the novel on which he had been working on and off since the publication of "The Great Gatsby" in 192...