I’d recommend this book to someone who enjoys reading novels a second time. I love that this novel has three stories woven into one. I considered rating this book lower after I first read it but it genuinely stuck with me and I still find myself thinking about it. Tony & Susan is 326 pages long and took me 4 days to read. The deeper Susan gets into the novel the more she loses herself in the story. He asks her to read the novel and critique it as she had done when they were together. Reading Tonys adventures over three nights, Susan feels herself slipping imperceptibly into an identification with his sense of death- in-life, reviewing her life since Edward-her first adulterous fling with Arnold, her brisk parting from Edward, the hollowness of her careful life since-and feeling uncomfortably called to account. Her ex-husband sends a letter attached to a manuscript titled “Nocturnal Animals” that he has written. She is often left alone by her physician husband and has become bored with her life. Which is not to say that I didn’t enjoy Tony & Susan but more to say that director Tom Ford showed this complicated novel in a way that was haunting and beautiful. I have never in my life enjoyed the movie more than the book until seeing Nocturnal Animals. I always enjoy a book that leaves me thinking about the meaning after I’m done.
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