It's that time of year when talk turns to beach reads, those narratives appropriate for a vacationer's seaside repose. The greatest such book is Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth and (no arguing) best novel. It's set on a beach, first of all, deploying the French Riviera as a stage on which we witness, with sympathy and delight, the misfortunes of the very fortunate. Its excellence resides in Fitzgerald's eye for trampled glamour, his ear for voices full of money, and his penetrating wit, as when he describes a woman's shadowy social position "as the wife of an arriviste who had not arrived."
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机译：一年中的那个时候，谈话变成了沙滩读物，那些叙述适合度假者的海边休憩。此类书中最伟大的一本书是斯科特·菲茨杰拉德（F. Scott Fitzgerald）的第四本小说（也是无可争议的）最佳小说。它坐落在海滩上，首先，将法国里维埃拉作为一个舞台，在这个舞台上我们以同情和喜悦的心情见证了非常幸运的不幸。它的卓越之处在于菲茨杰拉德（Fitzgerald）的眼睛被践踏的魅力，充满金钱的声音的耳朵以及他敏锐的机智，就像他形容一个女人的影子般的社会地位“作为未到来的被访者的妻子”。
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