Tender is the Night

Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the "Roaring Twenties" based on Fitzgerald's own experience. It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to cra...(展開全部) Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the "Roaring Twenties" based on Fitzgerald's own experience. It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful. F·S·菲茨傑拉德（Francis Scott Fitzgerald，1896—1940） 二十世紀美國最傑出的作家之一，以詩人和夢想家的氣質為“爵士時代”吟唱華麗輓歌。短短四十四年的人生，他的遭際幾經跌宕起伏，在名利場中看盡世態炎涼。二十世紀末，美國學術界權威在百年英語長河中選出一百部最優秀的小説，凝聚了菲茨傑拉德才華橫溢的兩部長篇小説《了不起的蓋茨比》和《夜色温柔》均榜上有名，前者更高居第二位。