Reader's Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
As Bruccoli points out in his introduction, this is not a critical study: it does not analyze the putative meanings of Tender Is the Night. Instead, Bruccoli aims to explore briefly the novel's genesis, creation, publication, and aftermath. The main course of this feast, however, is a lengthy section of explanatory notes on Tender's numerous references. The text is additionally buttressed with photos and illustrations as well as a time scheme and chronology of events. Bruccoli's presentation is thorough without being pedantic, making this quite readable by scholars and students alike. One only hopes that someday this material will be shuffled with Fitzgerald's novel for a long-overdue annotated edition of this greatly underrated work. Academic libraries supporting American literature curricula cannot afford to be without this book. Highly recommended.?Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.