Nocturnal Animals has a very simple premise: mild-mannered mathematics professor Tony, his wife, Laura, and their daughter, Helen, are on the way through northern Pennsylvania to their summer house in Maine. Susan has not heard from Edward in years, so she is very intrigued as to why he would want her to read the manuscript. When the novel begins, Susan receives the manuscript in the mail from Edward, who has been attempting for years to be a writer without commercial success. Tony & Susan flashes back and forth between chapters of Nocturnal Animals, and Susan’s life, thoughts, and reflections on the past –especially with Edward and how she came to marry her second husband, Arnold, with whom she has three children. Tony & Susan is a literary thriller mystery by Austin Wright in which Susan reads the manuscript Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward, in which a man named Tony seeks revenge against the three men who raped and killed his wife and teenage daughter. Parts of it shocked me, and I am not easily shocked.Note: This study guide specifically refers to the November 2016 Grand Central Publishing trade paperback edition of Tony & Susan by Austin Wright. “Absolutely terrifying, beautiful, and appalling. “Beautifully written, perfectly paced, impressively clever, and ultimately shocking in a way you never see coming.” - Nelson DeMille “A page-turner of a literary thriller.” - Sara Waters “A perfect and literary puzzle, an irresistible tale anout marriage and murder, both thriling and moving.” - Scott Turow “Compelling…mesmerizing…absolutely irresistible.”– New York Times “A superb and thrilling novel…extrodinary.” - Ian McEwan Tony and Susan is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. 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. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield’s thriller. He writes asking her to read the book she was always his best critic, he says.Īs Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. 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. Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.
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