Tender Is the Night

De: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrado por: Therese Plummer

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it - not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative - Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of a "modern Orpheus".

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"Plummer's skill with varied voices and accents is without equal. She navigates Fitzgerald's glamorous world with panache, immersing the listener in the intense characters' personalities. The result is an entertaining production in which the narrative is as alive as the characters themselves." ( AudioFile)

Tender is the Night - More Fitzgerald

Story: I found the story very Fitzgerald. Believable but difficult to feel any empathy for the characters. Their problems seem all self-induced and it is hard to pity them. What did enjoy is the backdrop of the story and travels from to and from the first location. It is another slice of life that no longer exists, good or bad.

Reader: Very Good.

Performance: Very Good

Not my favorite reader

Would you consider the audio edition of Tender Is the Night to be better than the print version?

Definitely not better than the print version. I could not even get through 30 minutes of listening. The reading was very sing-song like and saccharine.

Would you be willing to try another one of Therese Plummer’s performances?

No way.

Narrator perfection

This would be an amazing story no matter what, but the narrator really brings it to life. She should consider an acting career (or maybe she already has one)!

My failed foray into literary fiction

I like to read many types of book, so was glad to download the book.

I enjoyed the writing a lot, but the pace of the book and the less-than-compelling, slow moving story was disappointing.

The lasting (and intriguing) impression was of the rich and famous, floating around and spending money with the rest of the normal people like invisible wraiths around them - the perspective was interesting - but was not enough to sustain interest over the whole book

tragic and typical of F.Scott

This book haunted me. It is clear to see F.Scott's descent into depression and lonliness mimicked in these characters, most especially Dick Diver.