"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR - "Cosmopolitan - Kirkus Reviews - BookPage"
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"
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""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"
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"Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of
imagination."--Dean Baquet, "The New York Times Book Review"
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"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"
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"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
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"Gripping . . . a masterful puzzle . . . Pessl builds up real
suspense."--"Entertainment Weekly"
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"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"
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"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 Fair"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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