Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. As Susan becomes involved in Tony's journey, she relives her past life with Edward and reviews her present one with her current husband, Arnold--both men she could never "read" the way she reads Tony. Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019. 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. Is there more to the story or is Susan reading too much into it? Just at the middle? Enjoy! I'm going to analyse this book in a bit of an… Tony and Susan is a far more subtle creature – it is one of the most truly unique pieces of fiction that I can remember reading and rather defies any attempts at neat categorisation. Tony Bennett took in some fresh air and exercise with wife Susan Crow in New York over the weekend. Whoops! I realize now that Tony and Susan is much more of a character study, then a well-plotted thriller. "A superb and thrilling novel...extrodinary." Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. BEFORE YOU BEGIN: This post contains a lot of spoilers about Tony and Susan. In the multiple choices above, I could have used two descriptors (i.e., suspenseful and dark). It's gripping and interesting. I chose this book because the movie is out and it looked good so I didn't want to see the movie without reading the book. The film is very good and worth watching but the characters in the movie (and the actors/actresses used) are very different to what I had imagined from reading the book. Tony and Susan: The riveting novel that inspired the new movie NOCTURNAL ANIMALS - Kindle edition by Wright, Austin. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download Tony And Susan PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Am I near the end? Classifications. 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. And much of what makes the novel Tony & Susan so good has everything to do with what makes the film Nocturnal Animals so bad, or at least not as good as it could have been. It's another non-chronological plot but I found that it made the book more interesting. The "second" story is about a man (Tony) whose wife and daughter are kidnapped right from under his nose. Suffice to say the book called to me in my sleep and o woke up at 3am to read some more. — Ian McEwan "Compelling...mesmerizing...absolutely irresistible. Written in contrasting styles--Tony's account in sharp prose that ricochets in unexpected directions, Susan's musings in fluid passages of emotional and sensory perceptions--the novel's two stories mesh into a credible, suspenseful narrative. AbeBooks.com: Tony and Susan (9780446582902) by Wright, Austin and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Something went wrong. I just wish I'd seen more character development in either Tony or Susan. Susan’s Career Has Evolved Many Times. Please try again. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?”, After seeing the movie “Nocturnal Animals” decided to read, Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2020. while I enjoyed the book and without spoilage to both the movie and the book which is significantly longer and more intrinsic, I found both interesting but my preference is favored within the 2016 movie version: Nocturnal Animals which is based on this book. 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