Description
A lost masterpiece of American fiction: a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel of reading and writing, fear and regret, blood and revenge... 'Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved it... Unforgettable.' Ruth Rendell
About the Author
Austin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.
Reviews
Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved it... Unforgettable -- Ruth Rendell
A superb and thrilling novel... Extraordinary -- Ian McEwan
Tony and Susan is unbeatable. I was bowled over by this disturbing, bold novel * Observer *
A f***king masterpiece. I wish that Wright was still alive so that I could tell him so... It's going to become a living, breathing, knock-out classic. Astonishing -- MJ Hyland
Astute, cunning and thrilling in equal measure, this is one lost novel that deserves to be found by a whole new generation of readers * Independent on Sunday *
I want to read it all over again... Not since Cormac McCarthy's The Road have I been so gripped and unsettled by a piece of fiction -- Sarah Waters
Marvellously written - the last thing you would expect in a story of blood and revenge. Beautiful -- Saul Bellow
Compelling... Mesmerizing... Absolutely irresistible * New York Times *
A nail-biter and a penetrating portrait of guilt and revenge * Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781848870222
Author Austin Wright
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publisher Atlantic Books
Weight(grams) 356g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 27mm