F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934 · exile

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel. On the French Riviera, the glamorous psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wealthy wife Nicole enchant a circle of expatriates - but their brilliance masks her fragility and his slow decline. From the beaches of the Cote d'Azur to Paris and the Swiss clinics where Dick first treated Nicole, the marriage and the man unravel across the fading 1920s.

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   Cap d'Antibes

   The Riviera beach where the Divers hold court over a dazzling expatriate set, and where the young actress Rosemary falls under Dick's charm as the cracks begin to show.

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   Paris

   Where the party moves for a spell of hotels, duels and dissipation, and the glittering surface of the Divers' life first starts to give way.

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   Switzerland

   The Zurich clinics where Dick, as a young psychiatrist, first treated and married the damaged Nicole - and to which the story returns as he declines and she grows strong.