Tony and Susan Author:Austin Wright In 1993, Austin Wright, a novelist and professor at the University of Cincinnati, published TONY AND SUSAN to stunning acclaim. But the book never quite found the wide readership it deserved, and Wright died in 2003 at the age of eighty, relatively unrecognized. Now, more than two decades since its original publication, this brilliant novel has ... more »inspired the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals.
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package 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 Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized 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 lost masterpiece of American fiction. It is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. It is simply one of a kind.« less
This book was a waste of time and money--not in the least bit compelling or interesting. I didn't even finish it. I found this surprising after all the great reviews on Amazon.