Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of his character Tony Hastings, a maths professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, so are we. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilised lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life. Tony and Susan is a dazzling achievement: simultaneously a riveting portrayal of the experience of reading and a page turning thriller, written in startlingly arresting prose. It is also a novel about fear and regret, revenge and aging, marriage and creativity. It is simply unique.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Atlantic Books
ISBN-13
9781848870208
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96368177
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tony and Susan
Author
Austin Wright
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
217mm
Item Width
157mm
Item Weight
595g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Austin Wright
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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