Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

In which we are introduced to the beautiful, successful Divers swanning around the south of France, but this being a Fitzgerald novel we are aware that this glamorous facade is likely to fall apart in a miasma of alcohol and mental disintegration. So it goes in glorious, hauntingly beautiful fashion, and the shocking central revelation on which the whole plot hinges flashes by in just a sentence.