Austin Wright

Receiving a manuscript and request for feedback from her vengeful ex-husband of fifteen years, Susan Morrow is drawn into the life of the story's fictional character and confronts a devastating parallel darkness from her own past. Reprint.

Tony and Susan

A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND AMY ADAMS, AND DIRECTED BY TOM FORD. Based on the novel Tony and Susan. Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.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.

Previously published as Tony and Susan

Nocturnal Animals

Tres noches

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOM FORD'S NEW FILM, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND AMY ADAMS "A SUPERB AND THRILLING NOVEL...EXTRAORDINARY." -- Ian McEwan "COMPELLING...MESMERIZING...ABSOLUTELY IRRESISTIBLE."--New York Times "A PERFECT LITERARY PUZZLE, AN IRRESISTIBLE TALE ABOUT MARRIAGE AND MURDER, BOTH THRILLING AND MOVING."--Scott Turow "A PAGE-TURNER OF A LITERARY THRILLER."--Sara Waters "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, PERFECTLY PACED, IMPRESSIVELY CLEVER, AND ULTIMATELY SHOCKING IN A WAY YOU NEVER SEE COMING."--Nelson DeMille "ABSOLUTE TERRIFYING, BEAUTIFUL, AND APPALLING. PARTS OF IT SHOCKED ME, AND I AM NOT EASILY SHOCKED."--Ruth Rendell Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.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 dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. It is simply one of a kind.

The riveting novel that inspired the new movie 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.

Tres Noches

Aplaudida ya como un clásico, Tres noches es un vertiginoso thriller psicológico acerca del matrimonio, el amor y la venganza. Tras quince años sin noticias de Edward, Susan recibe un paquete con el manuscrito de una novela que él acaba de escribir. Casada con un cirujano y madre de dos hijos, Susan empieza la lectura de Animales nocturnos y se adentra en la historia de Tony Hastings, un profesor de matemáticas que, una noche, viajando con su mujer y su hija, sufre un encuentro en la carretera que afectará a su vida para siempre. Durante tres noches consecutivas, Susan lee con fascinación un relato que reaviva su pasado sentimental, cuestiona su presente y se cierne amenazador sobre su futuro. Así, las historias personales de Susan y Tony se suceden, proyectándose la una sobre la otra y tejiendo una trama de suspense que nos mantiene en vilo hasta el final. Igual que Susan, nopodemos dejar de leer, acuciados por saber qué sucede con los protagonistas. La crítica ha dicho... «Una obra maestra, una novela brillante e inteligente llena de emoción.» Saul Bellow «No conseguí interrumpir su lectura, absorbente, aterradora y hermosa. Una novela que nunca olvidaré.» Ruth Rendell «En general, no me gustan las novelas que hablan de novelas. Tres noches es una feliz excepción.» Paolo Giordano «Una soberbia y emocionante novela, una metaficción extraordinaria sobre la lectura y la escritura.» Ian McEwan «El puzzle literario perfecto, una historia irresistible [...] escrita de una forma emocionante y conmovedora.» Scott Turo «Escalofriante, iluminadora y muy hermosa.» Donna Leon «Dos thrillers en uno [...] y ambos infinitamente superiores a la mayoría, porque van muy en serio [...]. Léala.» The Chicago Tribune «Un thriller psicológico absolutamente brillante.» The Observer «Dos oscuras y hermosas historias por el precio de una [...]. Ambas acelerarán el corazón del lector.» New York Newsday «El tipo de libro que más ansío como lector: el que te sorprende de verdad.» The Guardian

Harry Field, an elderly professor looking after his baby granddaughter, allows Oliver, the child's absentee father, to take her to the park. Only too late do Harry and his daughter Judy realise that the child has fallen into the hands of the cult to which Oliver belongs - a group led by Miller, a dangerous man who claims to be God...

Disciples

As a college president, Thomas Westerly, 72, was a paragon of virtue, a crusader for everything from civil rights to ecology. Now, as he lies dying surrounded by his children, he asks them to go through his papers and destroy anything deemed embarrassing. The children are stunned by the request. But as they leaf through his diaries and records, they discover scandals, neuroses and deviance, leaving them to ask just how well we know the people that we love...

Telling Time

From the author of the lost masterpiece, Tony and Susan, comes a kind of intellectual who dunnit, a novel with the thrill of the chase combined with a meditation on who we are, and who we might like to be. Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the state and escaping accusations of rape and murder. As he assumes and discards aliases along the way, he believes that he can begin again, a fresh start - but the past has a habit of catching up with all of us, no matter how fast we run...

After Gregory

Susan Morrow e Edward Sheffield se separaram há vinte e cinco anos. Certo dia, instalada confortavelmente na casa em que mora com os filhos e o segundo marido, Susan recebe, pelo correio, um embrulho com o manuscrito do primeiro romance de Edward. Ele lhe pede que leia o livro: a esposa sempre foi sua melhor crítica, justifica. Ao iniciar a leitura, Susan é arrastada para dentro da vida do personagem Tony Hastings, um professor de matemática que leva a família de carro para a casa de veraneio no Maine. Com o desenrolar da trama, a vida comum e civilizada dos Hastings é desviada de seu curso de forma violenta e desastrosa, e Susan se vê às voltas com o passado, obrigada a encarar a escuridão que existe dentro de si mesma e a dar um nome para o medo que corrói seu futuro e vai transformar sua vida. Saudado como proeza literária, Tony e Susan foi adaptado para os cinemas com roteiro e direção de Tom Ford. Um romance sobre medo e remorso, vingança e envelhecimento, casamento e criatividade escrito com uma prosa cativante e única.

Tony e Susan

Robert Dwyer

An aging Sheriff Donovan is coming to terms with his recent diagnosis of terminal cancer and desperate to maintain his tenuous grasp on Three Chop—the town he willed into existence. When Donovan enters into a bargain with a faction of rural Christian Prohibitionists, agreeing to shutter the local saloon and brothel, his plan to cement his legacy in the eyes of God meets resistance from the town’s business elite, whose livelihoods depend on liquor sales. With a band of notorious outlaws descending on Three Chop, the dispute ignites into a furious battle that forces residents to take sides, to choose between the town’s past and future.

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