Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
March 16th, 2008 by Bauman
“Flashes of Genius by an Expert in Self-Destruction”
In 1925 Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby to immediate critical acclaim and popular success. Eight years later, he was no closer to delivering another novel.
His editor at Scribner’s, the legendary Maxwell Perkins, worried about Fitzgerald but never lost faith, writing to him in August of 1933, “Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skills than any of them.”
While Tender is the Night sold well for the Depression era, Fitzgerald had hoped for so much more. This would be the last novel he would publish in his lifetime, perhaps the final solid step before the dissolution and disappearance that would so closely parallel the tragic decline of Dick Diver.
We offer several quality selections including a first edition, in a lovely first-issue dust jacket boldly signed by him.