Night Film - Softcover

Pessl Marisha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099559242 ISBN 13: 9780099559245

Publisher: WINDMILL, 2014

Synopsis

The book everyone's talking about. ' observer on a damp october night the body of beautiful ashley cordova is discovered in a manhattan warehouse. Though her death is ruled a suicide, investigative journalist scott mcgrath suspects otherwise. The last time mcgrath got too close to the cordova dynasty, he lost his marriage and his career. This time he could lose his mind.

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Review:

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2013: As she proved with her first book (Special Topics in Calamity Physics), Pessl is a sly, smart, sophisticated writer. What’s surprising about her elaborately plotted and addictive new novel is how it gets better as it grows more convoluted. I can envision a massive white board busy with diagrams and arrows to track the spider-webbed storyline. Once Pessl works past a few slow spots and finds her momentum, the story churns into a dark, propulsive, and insatiable mystery. The daughter of a reclusive horror film director is found dead, and a disgraced journalist and two sidekicks become obsessed with uncovering the truth of her death and the true identity of her infamous father, whose terrifying films (banned from theaters and found only via underground methods) depict what is “graphic and dark and gorgeous about life, thereby conquering the monsters of your mind.” Complex, shadowy, and a bit sad, Pessl’s riveting tale keeps us guessing until the final pages, along the way raising questions about reality, magic, art, fear, and celebrity. Sprinkled throughout are clever page props--website screenshots, news clippings, smudged police reports, and coffee-stained transcripts. It all holds together impressively, with a satisfying payoff that’ll leave you spent and sorry the ride is over. Special note to impatient readers (like me): stick with it, and savor it. You’ll be glad you did. --Neal Thompson

About the Author:

Marisha Pessl’s bestselling debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and currently resides in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: WINDMILL
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0099559242
• ISBN 13: 9780099559245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624