![]() Nevertheless, this is still an excellent book: gripping, well-written, structurally interesting. Very few novels, after all, belong in company as exalted as Revolutionary Road. That's quite a claim, and to my mind it unfairly oversells Tony and Susan. ![]() On the face of it, then, the decision by Atlantic Books to republish Tony and Susan is odd: why resuscitate a novel written not that long ago and which wasn't a big success in its day? The reason, says Atlantic, is that Tony and Susan's neglect deserves to be rectified, since it is "the most astounding lost masterpiece of American fiction since Revolutionary Road". He wrote seven novels, of which Tony and Susan(published 1993) is the best known, although it didn't find a wide readership. ![]() A ustin Wright, who died in 2003, was a novelist and English professor at the University of Cincinnati. ![]()
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