![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "She wishes she didn't have to keep proving that it's her ability to read that makes her civilized." But when the last page is turned it's by no means clear that either Wright or Susan believes that reading is still a civilizing influence at all. Copyright Austin Wright, 1993 The moral right of Austin Wright to be identified as the author of this work has been. There is no obvious conclusion in Susan's mind as to whether reading is an exclusively virtuous act. Of course, such issues have been pondered before in fiction, but Wright is refreshingly unsentimental about it. Who is the story written for? What was the writer's intention? What does the reader want or expect to get out of reading it? All these questions whirl around in Susan's head and in Wright's efficient, perceptive prose. Then it looks at the relationship between readers and writers, the way a shocking, morally dubious story makes the reader implicit in its action. Firstly, it is a scathing look at the basic unhappiness of suburban American life, the kind of pitch-perfect melancholy and bitterness Richard Yates conjured up in his work. The complexity of Edward's manuscript raises all sorts of questions and anxieties in her own life. Amy Adams as Susan Morrow Armie Hammer as Hutton Morrow Jake Gyllenhaal as Tony Hastings. These questions spill over into the tale of Susan, now married to her second husband, Arnold, and mother to their children. based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. ![]()
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