Tender is the Night

So promising to begin with but somehow it went off the rails. When we go back in time to see the evolution of Dick‰ЫЄs and Nicole‰ЫЄs relationship, we are supposed to get to know them better, but we never really do. Dick, especially, seems simply to fade out. I would have been more interested in seeing what Rosemary was up to, honestly. Knowing a little bit about Fitzgerald‰ЫЄs very personal investment in this story, I can‰ЫЄt help making assumptions and jumping to conclusions about how the story came about and why it has the flaws it does, but I don‰ЫЄt think I‰ЫЄll go there. In the end this was such a personal book from one of the great writers and you take the bad with the good.