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Tony and Susan Main Edition
Author(s): Austin Wright (Author)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication Date: 1 May 2010
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848870205
- ISBN-13: 9781848870208
Book Description
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. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of his character Tony Hastings. And as we read with her, so are we. Tony&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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved Tony and Susan and became intensely involved in it. Parts of it shocked me and I am not easily shocked. It is easy to say that something one has read is unforgettable, but this novel I know I never shall forget.’
— Ruth Rendell
— Ruth Rendell
`A f***king masterpiece. I wish that Wright was still alive so that I could tell him so… It’s going to become a living, breathing, knock-out classic. Astonishing.’ –M J Hyland
‘Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved Tony and Susan and became intensely involved in it. Parts of it shocked me and I am not easily shocked. It is easy to say that something one has read is unforgettable, but this novel I know I never shall forget.’ –Ruth Rendell
`In an era when writers scarcely get a first chance to make their mark, much less a second, the reissue of Austin Wright’s superb novel is a real treat… A masterful example of narrative intensity and artistic control.’
–Sunday Times
About the Author
Austin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.
