Tony and Susan (29 page)
Dear Edward,
I finally finished your novel. Sorry it took so long. Drop me a line if you want my opinion.
Love, Susan
She wanted to punish Arnold too, but the only thing she could think of was to make him read the book. He would do that if she insisted, but she doubted he would see anything.
AUSTIN WRIGHT
was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist, a literary critic and an academic, and taught for many years at the University of Cincinnati. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.
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Tony and Susan
Copyright © 1993 by Austin Wright.
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First published in the United States in 1993 by Baskerville Publishers Ltd. Originally published in Great Britain in 1994 by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Ltd. Reissued in Great Britain in 2010 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd.
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