I was totally happy to sit in the darkness until the very last page, and I didn't move a muscle until the lights came up." However, despite the plot's plainness, and the characters' lack of personalities, Wolitzer believes that "Marisha Pessl had an extremely cool and intricate idea for a novel, and ultimately it works. Meg Wolitzer wrote that "In the novel's best moments, reading this book is like sitting in a movie theater in wraparound darkness, feeling a deep chill that's part air conditioning, part anticipation." Wolitzer does note that while Pessl's environments and scenes are beautifully rendered in the text, her characters fall flat. With pages of faked-up old photos, invented Web sites and satellite maps, Night Film - Pessl's second novel, following Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) - asserts itself as a multimedia presentation more than an old-fashioned book." Hill notes that despite some of the clunky lines and oddly italicized sentences, the novel "has been precision-engineered to be read at high velocity, and its energy would be the envy of any summer blockbuster." Writing for the New York Times, Joe Hill said, "No one can accuse Marisha Pessl of unfamiliarity with the tools of the modern thriller. ![]() Throughout the investigation the trio interview a variety of people who were closely associated with both Cordova and his daughter, only to discover that the truth of what happened may be beyond natural, scientific explanation. With the belief that Stanislas Cordova was heavily involved in her death, disgraced investigative journalist Scott McGrath reluctantly teams up with exuberant aspiring actress Nora Halliday and the mysterious and aloof Hopper to determine what really happened. Reviewers who rated the novel unfavorably stated that Pessl's inclusion of the decoder was a drawback of the novel.Īshley Cordova, the daughter of legendary reclusive director Stanislas Cordova, commits suicide. ![]() The novel uses screenshots of author-created web page and involves an app called "Night Film Decoder" that is used to scan particular images used throughout the text to unlock additional text, PDF, video, and audio files which augment the text. The novel was a finalist 2013 Shirley Jackson Award and was ranked sixth on The New York Times Bestseller’s list in September 2013 following its release in August 2013. Night Film is a mystery thriller by Marisha Pessl, published by Random House. ![]() Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Experimental Fiction, Contemporary
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