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Tender Is the Night

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
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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".

©1933, Charles Scribner's Sons (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Marriage Romance

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"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)
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I first read this many years ago, but on revisiting it I was disappointed. Too many sub plots that went nowhere (duel, shooting, murder). Found narrator very annoying too. Especially her attempts at American/Irish accent. Reminded me of Dick Van Dyke’s cockney accent in Mary Poppins. The English upper class accent even worse. I was relieved when I had finished it.

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This is one of those books you can re-read over and over, and get more from it each time.
Beautifully and intelligently read.

A merry-go-round of a book

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impressive, very nice

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I love the writing in this book and the narration was great. This was my second time reading it.

Beautiful writing

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I knew nothing about this story and was frequently surprised by the sequence of events. It is an engaging and interesting story very well told

It is, in the main very well read by Therese Plummer who utilises a range of voices and accents to generally good effect. The one exception is the voice she gives to Dick Diver and given that he is the main character this is a problem. The accent changes frequently from full on American at some points all the way to something that sounds like a a bit like a comedy Scottish accent. I am not sure why she does this. The text refers to Dick's Irish heritage but a) this would not mean he would have anything other than an American accent given his birth and upbringing and b) the accent does not sound remotely Irish anyway.

A small complain maybe but unfortunately it really jarred!

Engaging story, beautifully crafted

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