Tony is then driven to a clearing and abandoned there. The cars end up bumping each other and the leader of the men, Ray, gets in the car with Laura and Helen and drives off with them. Deciding to drive all night to get to Maine they are accosted by three men in a truck, Ray, Lou, and Turk, who begin blocking the path to their car. Nocturnal Animals is about a meek mathematician named Tony Hastings on his way to his country home in Maine with his wife, Laura, and teenage daughter, Helen. After putting off the manuscript for months she reads it in the course of three nights after learning that Edward will be passing through her city soon. Susan and Edward's relationship had dissolved 25 years earlier in part thanks to him abandoning his studies to be a lawyer to pursue a writing career and Susan is surprised to find that he is still writing. In 1990, Susan Morrow is surprised to hear from her estranged ex-husband, Edward, who sends her a manuscript to his novel, Nocturnal Animals. Following the adaptation, the book was again republished, with a new cover and the updated title of Nocturnal Animals, corresponding with the film's release. The novel was adapted into a screenplay by Tom Ford and developed into the 2016 film Nocturnal Animals, directed by Ford, which was released to positive reception. In 2010, the book was published for the first time in the UK and enjoyed a critical revival causing it to be reprinted in the United States.
It was thought at the time that the paperback edition did not sell well because the book was too literary to be a mass-market offering. Tony and Susan was Warner's lead paperback fiction in September 1994. Movie rights were optioned to Universal Studios and later to HBO (though it was never made) and Warner Books (now known as Grand Central Publishing) took the paperback rights for $400,000 in a two-day auction. The book was a critical success and went into two editions with sale to Book-of-the-Month Club as "Talk of the Office," and translation into 13 languages.
The book was initially published by Baskerville Publishers, a small press, after having been turned down by 11 major New York publishers. Tony and Susan is a novel by Austin Wright first published in 1993. 1-88 (first edition, hardback Baskerville)
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