Author: Marisha Pessl Title: Night Film Place Published: New York Publisher: Random House Year Published: 2013 No. of Pages: 587 Price: Php799 Place Bought: Fully Booked Rockwell Buy From Amazon: Night Film: A Novel Opening Credits IT’S been a seven-year-long wait for Marisha Pessl ’s second novel, but was Night Film worth it? Her debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics won the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize (known then as the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize). The New York Times Book Review also named it one of the 10 Best Books of 2006. Expectations were building for Pessl, and she would ultimately deliver, proving she was more than just a one-hit wonder. Introduction Night Film follows the narrative of disgraced investigate reporter Scott McGrath , whose career and marriage were ruined after a failed investigation on occult filmmaker Stanislas Cordova . “There is something he does to the children,” an anonym
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