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        Tender Is The Night


        setting

        South of France

        time

        1920s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1933

        page count

        315

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Dick and Nicole Driver

        Rip's impressions

        A return to the denser style of his first novels, after the sparse prose of The Great Gatsby.

        first line

        On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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