Nocturnal Animals: Film tie-in originally published as Tony and Susan

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2016
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The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge. Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and corruption. How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message...? Originally published as Tony and Susan.

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The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge. Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and corruption. How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message...? Originally published as Tony and Susan.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: Open Market Edition - Tie-in
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 06 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 1786490196
ISBN 13: 9781786490193

Media Reviews

Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved it... Unforgettable -- Ruth Rendell
A superb and thrilling novel... Extraordinary -- Ian McEwan
Tony and Susan is unbeatable. I was bowled over by this disturbing, bold novel * Observer *
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 -- MJ Hyland
Astute, cunning and thrilling in equal measure, this is one lost novel that deserves to be found by a whole new generation of readers * Independent on Sunday *
I want to read it all over again... Not since Cormac McCarthy's The Road have I been so gripped and unsettled by a piece of fiction -- Sarah Waters
Marvellously written - the last thing you would expect in a story of blood and revenge. Beautiful -- Saul Bellow
Compelling... Mesmerizing... Absolutely irresistible * New York Times *
A nail-biter and a penetrating portrait of guilt and revenge * Sunday Times *

Author Bio

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.