Night Film

When Cordova's beautiful daughter is found dead in a warehouse, McGrath can't help but pick up the trail. His pacy narrative voice is interrupted by magazine interviews, text messages, Facebook pages; a Cordova fan forum even pops up on the printed page ... The result is multiple narratives that read like real life (or a more exciting version of it) ... Night Film doesn't cease to be with its last full stop. [Pessl] has developed a phone app and a website with extra material - a savvy move to create a brand in an age when book sales are declining. Vogue The real and the imaginary, life and art, are dizzyingly distorted not only in a Cordova night film - which a fictional Time article calls a spellbinding and emotionally harrowing experience - but in Pessl's own Night Film as well. McGrath's prologue opens with a dictum Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not. This book is ours. Vanity Fair This month's smartest (and creepiest) new novel is a hell of a read ... An intensely writerly project that doesn't jettison the reader ... It explores how stories seep from texts into the world; not only in that it follows a journalist investigating a cult horror-film director whose life is entangled in his fictions, but also because the pages are peppered with fake news article and websites. A narrative signifying narratives, this novel echoes ... The action bullet-trains through an artfully plotted world of secret screenings and suspicious deaths. GQ (Book of the Month) Night Film is like a head-long fall into a dangerous film set, with the kind of eeriness that makes you jump at your own shadow. Marie Claire Using mixed media, Pessl tell the tale of an eccentric, Kubrick-like film director and the mysterious deaths that litter his past. Grazia