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The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer
THE STORY: Margaret Turner is a happy and successful woman, with few regrets that she has chosen a legal career in place of marriage and a family. She occupies a respected judgeship; provides a good home for her teenaged sister, Susan; and enjoys t
Maybe This Ain't Heaven
When millionaire ad executive Rich Larson flees New York for the Catskills, he seeks the kind of happiness derived from a rod, reel, and a bucket of worms. But after he assumes a new identity as Johnny Paycash, a singer-songwriter who regularly performs at the Hooten Holler Taproom, he is inexplicably framed as a drug-dealing terrorist by a crooked, cross-dressing cop. After his fingerprints are found on a bag of cocaine, Johnny is arrested, thrown in the slammer, and forced to rely on Fat Schanz, his gambling-addicted ex-convict lawyer, to bail him out. If not for his girlfriend, Sugarfoot, a vivacious farm girl who sings like an angel and shoots like Annie Oakley, Johnny might go insane th...
Tender Is the Night (Summarized Edition)
Tender Is the Night (1934) follows the glamorous expatriate circle on the French Riviera, centering on charismatic psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wealthy, fragile wife Nicole, observed by the naive young actress Rosemary Hoyt. Fitzgerald interlaces scenes of beachside brilliance with Swiss clinical interiors, mapping the corrosion of charisma under money, sex, and responsibility. Stylistically the novel fuses lyrical sentences with cinematic montage and shifting focalization; its non-linear publication and later chronological ordering mirror the disorientation it studies. Within the modernist moment and the post–Jazz Age hangover, it interrogates psychiatry, class, and the ethics of care....
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
"The carefree swirl of the Jazz Age...and the tragic romance of Dick and Nicole Diver. Fitzgerald's 'favorite novel' is the story of their passionate love affair and their life as the perfect Jazz Age couple. He's an idealistic American psychiatrist, full of charm and a promising career. She's an extraordinarily beautiful and wealthy mental patient being treated at a Swiss sanitarium. They fall in love and marry. Unfortunately, her shameful and tragic past continually forces him to be both doctor and husband. He can't. And though they love each other, he eventually has an affair with a Hollywood starlet, dooming their marriage and setting the stage for his disintegration and loss of self. Surrounding them are a host of expatriate Americans and glamorous Europeans Dick has 'collected.'"--
The Double
A murder, a mystery house in Lowndes Square, hidden millions, a boy with a limp and a finger print connected to a crime committed 14 years ago - a new mystery is uncovered.
Tommy Carries the Ball
Tommy loses his chance to play on the Rangers football team because he constantly fumbles, but then a star player from the nearby university team works with him until he proves his true ability to play.
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