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Author: Marisha Pessl
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A page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film tells the haunting story of a journalist who becomes obsessed with the mysterious death of a troubled prodigy—the daughter of an iconic, reclusive filmmaker. On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.
For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.
Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.
The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.
Night Film, the gorgeously written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl, will hold you in suspense until you turn the final page.
Praise for Night Film “
Night Film has been precision-engineered to be read at high velocity, and its energy would be the envy of any summer blockbuster. Your average writer of thrillers should lust for Pessl’s deft touch with character.”
—Joe Hill, The New York Times Book Review “Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.”
—Dean Baquet, The New York Times Book Review “Maniacally clever . . . Cordova is a monomaniacal genius who creeps into the darkest crevices of the human psyche. . . . As a study of a great mythmaker,
Night Film is an absorbing act of myth-making itself. . . . Dastardly fun . . . The plot feels like an M. C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe. . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn and start sleeping with the lights on.”
—The Washington Post “Haunting . . . a suspenseful, sprawling page-turner.”
—USA Today “Entrancing and delightful . . . [a] whipsmart humdinger of a thriller . . . It feels, above all things, new.”
—The Boston Globe “Gripping . . . a masterful puzzle . . . Pessl builds up real suspense.”
—Entertainment Weekly “A very deeply imagined book . . . sprints to an ending that’s equal parts nagging and haunting: What lingers, beyond all the page-turning, is a density of possible clues that leaves you leafing backward, scanning fictional blog comments and newspaper clippings, positive there’s some secret detail that will snap everything into focus.”
—New York “Hypnotic . . . The real and the imaginary, life and art, are dizzyingly distorted not only in a Cordova night film . . . but in Pessl’s own
Night Film as well.”
—Vanity FairFrom the Hardcover edition.Books with free ebook downloads available Epub Night Film: A Novel
- File Size: 34997 KB
- Print Length: 624 pages
- Publisher: Random House (August 20, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004J4WL2I
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Epub Night Film: A Novel
I'm usually a pretty patient person when it comes to authors' releases- I know that in order to write something of quality time is necessary. After reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics shortly after it came out in 2006 a follow up by Marisha Pessl was immediately on my wish list. So, I waited. And waited some more. And then for a few more years. Two or so years ago rumblings about Night Film started and I got excited- only to have to wait even more. And now, the moment has arrived and I completely understand the delay. This is not an ordinary book.
Ten Reasons to Read Night Film
1. The verb "crafted" is probably overused a bit when it comes to writing, but there is no better one to use in regards to Night Film. The world Pessl created was obviously labored over- given the genre, mystery, everything had to add up in the end. And when there's nearly 600 pages of people, places, and clues there's a lot of i dotting and t crossing to do.
2. The multimedia aspect of the book makes it more hands-on and, to put it simply, interesting. Pessl includes screen shots from websites, pictures, notes, and transcripts in order to provide the reader with a more authentic experience. Also, allowing us an actual model for Ashley Cordova, the daughter of a demented film director who kills herself, is necessary- we have to understand her appeal.
3. She manages to sneak in a little bit of literature, ala Special Topics, with her references to TS Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
4. The setting drags you all over New York City from Park Avenue to China Town, out to the Adirondacks and even to Chile, eventually.
I must say, as I begin writing this, that I am not sure of my eventual rating. Five stars for the way the book grabbed me at the beginning? Two stars for the unnumbered sixty-page chapter interpolated between 93 and 94 that made me want to chuck the book in the trash? Four for the way she almost pulls it all together at the end? Back down to three for her inability to leave well enough alone even then? Those who have read SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS will know that Marisha Pessl has a beguiling way with words. They will also know that she takes her novels in directions you do not expect. That one started as a teenage search for personal identity (rather good at that, actually), morphed into a murder mystery, and morphed again into espionage, conspiracy theories, and goodness knows what. Her new one has more mutations than you can pin down, starting as a noir mystery and veering into cults, more conspiracies, and a heavy dose of the occult. Or apparently so; with Pessl, you can never know. It is like a roller-coaster enclosed in a haunted house; if you can accept novels as fairground rides, you will love this!
Stanislas Cordova is, or was, a notorious American director of horror films -- so horrible that the studios refused to release them half-way into his career, and the last half-dozen were screened only in clandestine showings in places like the Paris Catacombs. Near the beginning of the book, Cordova's 24-year-old daughter Ashley, a former musical genius, is found dead in a deserted New York warehouse, apparently from suicide. Investigative reporter Scott McGrath, who has already been slapped with a lawsuit by the Cordova family, decides to look deeper.
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