{"id":2684,"date":"2013-08-20T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9781400067886"},"modified":"2013-08-20T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:30:00","slug":"night-film-by-marisha-pessl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/20\/night-film-by-marisha-pessl\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Film by Marisha Pessl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Night Film<\/a> A Novel
Written by<\/b> Marisha Pessl<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hardcover<\/b>, 624 pages | Random House | Fiction – Suspense; Fiction – Thrillers; Fiction – Psychological | $28.00<\/b> | August 20, 2013 | 978-1-4000-6788-6 (1-4000-6788-X)<\/p>\n

NEW YORK TIMES<\/i> BESTSELLER<\/p>\n

A page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film <\/i>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.<\/b>
 
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,<\/i> the gorgeously written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl, will hold you in suspense until you turn the final page.<\/p>\n

Praise for Night Film<\/i><\/b>
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“Night Film<\/i> 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<\/i><\/b>
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“Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.”—Dean Baquet, The New York Times Book Review<\/i><\/b>
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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<\/i> 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<\/i><\/b>
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“If there’s any justice, the first chapter of literary wunderkind Marisha Pessl’s much-awaited second novel, Night Film,<\/i> should go down in literary history as among the most notable formal innovations of this century. . . . Here she conjures an entire oeuvre, as well as its production, reception, and mediation. But her biggest triumph is the specter of Cordova himself. ‘He’s a myth, a monster, a mortal man,’ she writes. One who, by the book’s end, many readers will wish desperately was real.”—The Boston Globe<\/i><\/b>
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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<\/i><\/b>
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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 <\/i>as well.”—Vanity Fair<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n


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