![]() ![]() ![]() He was glad of the hitchhiker he had left behind, of the love of his wife and the funny humor of his daughter. He was glad to have his car between him and the wilderness, and he hummed his music thinking coffee in an hour, while meanwhile he enjoyed his good feeling, wide awake, steady – in the dark pilot house of his ship with the passengers asleep. Nor was there light in the countryside, which he could not see but which he imagined to be all woods. Having 2 narrators is essential so the listener can tell who is speaking or thinking. Susan reads, reacts and listens to a troublemaking voice that lives in her head. Susan in the ex-wife who for some reason has been asked to read the unpublished manuscript. On his own side from time to time he would overtake the red lights of someone ahead, and occasionally headlights would appear in the mirror and a car or truck would catch up with him, but for long stretches there was no one on his side at all. Tony is the victim of a violent crime resulting in the death of his wife and daughter. Sometimes they rose or dropped when the lanes diverged. Ian McEwan Compellingmesmerizingabsolutely irresistible. The occasional lights on the opposite side flickered through the trees that separated the lanes. Tony and Susan is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. Then it was full night and Tony Hastings was driving alone, no voices now, only the roar of wind obscuring the roar of engine and tires, while his wife Laura sat silent in the dark beside him and his daughter Helen was out of sight in the back seat. ![]()
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