A modern classic this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by bestselling Amor Towles. Set in the south of France in the late 1920s Tender Is the Night is the tragic tale of a young actress Rosemary Hoyt and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle and whose growing strength highlights Dick s decline. Lyrical expansive and hauntingly evocative Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934 and is even more beloved by readers today.