Written by the greatest chronicler of the Jazz Age, Tender Is the Night examines the lives of a circle of American expatriates on the Cote d'Azur. Fitzgerald's fourth novel, it is a cool dissection of glamour, wealth, addiction, mental instability and marital breakdown. The book examines elegance, class and taste, and the competitive destructiveness of intimate human relationships. A 'sultry dream of a book', sensual and strange.