Tony and Susan
内容简介
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.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.
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作者简介
Austin Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic, for many years Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.
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读书文摘
她一直都知道，爱德华喜欢暴力，尽管他表面上是那么的冷静克制。他的克制，他刻意的温和，他私底下不抵抗的愤怒，这些都包含着暴力。
他在旅馆里读着杂志，因为保持思维的活跃非常重要。他拒绝流泪，因为控制面部表情非常重要。他拒绝让梅尔顿过来开车送她回家，因为这非常重要。认识到事物的重要性非常重要，因为他知道，重要的事情就是重要的，没有什么比重要性更加重要的了。
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