Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr and, caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, he inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity…

Once upon a time there was a prince and a princess – that's how the story of the Murphys should begin," said a friend of this golden pair. Handsome, gifted, wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s.

It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche–the Left Bank of the Seine River–in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of "A Farewell to Arms," and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was struggling with "Tender Is the Night."