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With this detailed, authoritative, and insightful analysis of <i>Tender Is the Night</i>, Chris Messenger shows convincingly why it deserves to be placed alongside <i>The Great Gatsby</i> as a major work of American fiction. Messenger's enthusiasm for and admiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's artistry are apparent throughout, as are his command of the full range of Fitzgerald's fiction and of the highly original and often-surprising sources, both literary and biographical, that he cites as underlying the themes and plot in <i>Tender</i>. In this knowledgeable, far-ranging, and ground-breaking study, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> receives the informed scrutiny it has long deserved but previously has too infrequently received. --Jackson R. Bryer, coeditor of <i>F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century</i> and <i>Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald</i>

With this detailed, authoritative, and insightful analysis of Tender Is the Night, Chris Messenger shows convincingly why it deserves to be placed alongside The Great Gatsby as a major work of American fiction. Messenger's enthusiasm for and admiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's artistry are apparent throughout, as are his command of the full range of Fitzgerald's fiction and of the highly original and often-surprising sources, both literary and biographical, that he cites as underlying the themes and plot in Tender. In this knowledgeable, far-ranging, and ground-breaking study, Tender Is the Night receives the informed scrutiny it has long deserved but previously has too infrequently received. --Jackson R. Bryer, author of Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and coeditor of Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

With this detailed, authoritative, and insightful analysis of Tender Is the Night, Chris Messenger shows convincingly why it deserves to be placed alongside The Great Gatsby as a major work of American fiction. Messenger's enthusiasm for and admiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's artistry are apparent throughout, as are his command of the full range of Fitzgerald's fiction and of the highly original and often-surprising sources, both literary and biographical, that he cites as underlying the themes and plot in Tender. In this knowledgeable, far-ranging, and ground-breaking study, Tender Is the Night receives the informed scrutiny it has long deserved but previously has too infrequently received. Jackson R. Bryer, coeditor of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century and Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

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Chris Messenger is the author of two books on sport and play in American fiction as well as The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang” (2002). He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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