The novel within quickly becomes electrifying and dark as the story progresses. And, she's so busy with husband Arnold being out of town at a conference, with his nurse.his pretty, young nurse. After all, she is a *serious* reader this will take time she invests herself in what she reads, emotionally as well as with her time. later, Susan stands with manuscript in hand, a little peeved at her ex's audacity. Susan's jealousy, perhaps? Or is it Edward's own little deviance beginning to show up? Now, 25 yrs.
You find yourself entertaining a flicker of. Here is where you get the first little inkling that perhaps there is more driving Susan's negative reaction than Edward's lack of talent. Just prior to the divorce Susan reads Edward's work and gives him a scathing review. The abrupt change in a path that Susan had already plotted out far into a bright future is the beginning of the disillusion of the marriage.
He pursues the *calling* with the reclusive passion of Salinger, and the concentration of Thoreau. After several years of law school, Edward announces out of the blue that he HAS to be a writer. Married in college, Susan had secret aspirations to write Edward was going to be a lawyer. old mother of three, married to a prominent (and philandering) heart surgeon, receives a manuscript from her estranged first husband, Edward, 25 yrs. That rhetorical sigh turned out to be the hidden emphasis of this *novel in a novel.* Susan Morrow, now an English professor and a 49 yr. There's a point in the book where a comment is made, "why can't readers simply be readers and writers simply take a bow." The remark struck me as the subconscious longing of a writer very conscious of (maybe even a bit ambivalent towards) the impact of the reader on the social success of an author's work. Having seen a big chunk of the rough cut of the movie that this will finally be, I think this might be one of those rare incidents where the film might be better than the book - but back to Wright's novel, and to author Austin Wright because this is a book where the author feels very present. Originally released 1993, adapted in 2016 to film by Tom Ford,Tony & Susan is now known as Nocturnal Animals, and I think the novel is also being re-released with that same title.
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