Night Film
A Novel
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4.0 • 30 Ratings
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Publisher Description
On a damp October night, the body of young, beautiful Ashley Cordova is found in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. By all appearances her death is a suicide--but investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. Though much has been written about the dark and unsettling films of Ashley's father, Stanislas Cordova, very little is known about the man himself. As McGrath pieces together the mystery of Ashley's death, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the dark underbelly of New York City and the twisted world of Stanislas Cordova, and he begins to wonder--is he the next victim? In this novel, the dazzlingly inventive writer Marisha Pessl offers a breathtaking mystery that will hold you in suspense until the last page is turned.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
After being hailed as a literary wunderkind for her intensely creative and restlessly intelligent first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl returns seven years later with a demonstrably darker but no less imaginative variation on the father-daughter relationship at the core of her debut. A sprawling and unceasingly twisty mystery novel written in a pitch-black shade of hard-boiled urban noir, Night Film is ostensibly the story of enigmatically notorious cult filmmaker Stanislas Cordova, the apparent suicide of his 24-year-old daughter Ashley, and the obsessive investigation into Ashley’s death conducted by hard-nosed journalist Scott McGrath, whose personal and professional lives were destroyed the last time he tried to investigate Cordova. Astoundingly full in its imagining, Night Film abounds with masterful complexity and a seductively dark undercurrent.
