Parts of it shocked me, and I am not easily shocked. Members: Reviews: Popularity: Average rating: Mentions: 486: 32: 37,430 (3.3) 8: Tony and Susan is a lost masterpiece of American fiction: a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel of reading and writing, fear and regret, blood and revenge. "Absolutely terrifying, beautiful, and appalling. "Beautifully written, perfectly paced, impressively clever, and ultimately shocking in a way you never see coming." - Nelson DeMille Dazzling and terrifying, Tony and Susan is simultaneously a riveting portrayal of the experience of reading and a page-turning thriller. "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 "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 Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.
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