Set in 1935, the novel focuses on the sadistic relationship between two 13-year-old and identical twin boys: one of whom is well behaved while the other is a sociopath who wreaks havoc on his family's rural New England farm property. The novel was reprinted in a commemorative edition in 2012 by New York Review Books with an afterword by Dan Chaon. Read 952 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Full Book Name:The Other Author Name:Thomas Tryon Book Genre:Classics, Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Mystery, Thriller ISBN 9780440167365 Date of Publication:1971 PDF / EPUB File Name:ThomasTryon-TheOther.pdf, ThomasTryon-TheOther.epub PDF File Size: 1. The Other was adapted into a 1972 film of the same name directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Uta Hagen.

Upon its release, the novel received wide critical acclaim and became a surprise bestseller. Before Stephen King, Thomas Tryon wrote a bestselling horror novel that is now recognized as a classic in the genre. Tryon, who had been a working actor, retired from his Hollywood career to become a novelist. He teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing and Literature.The Other is a psychological horror novel by American writer Thomas Tryon, published in 1971. His stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and The O. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. He is the author of the novels You Remind Me of Me and Await Your Reply, as well as of the story collections Fitting Ends and Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins.

Dan Chaon’s most recent book is Stay Awake, a short-story collection. At the time of his death Tryon was working on a historical trilogy set in early nineteenth-century Connecticut. Tryon wrote two more novels set in the fictional Pequot Landing of The Other, Harvest Home (1973) and Lady (1974), before turning to works like All That Glitters (1986), that explore the dark side of the golden age of Hollywood. Thomas Tryon 2,040 Paperback 47 offers from 2.86 The Others (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Nicole Kidman 7,480 DVD 138 offers from 1.99 Product Description Something's strange about twin boys on a 1930s Connecticut farm. His first book, The Other (1971), was an immediate success, spending more than six months on the New York Times best-seller list and allowing him to quit acting for good a film adaptation, with a screenplay by Tryon and directed by Robert Mulligan, appeared in 1972. Preminger’s treatment of Tryon was so cruel as to become a Hollywood legend, and Tryon turned to writing. After serving in the navy during World War II, he attended Yale, and upon graduation began an acting career that would take him from a made-for-television Disney western to Hollywood, where he was featured in several B movies as well as Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal. Thomas Tryon (1926–1991) was born in Hartford, Connecticut into a family whose New England roots stretch back to the seventeenth century.

The Other by Thomas Tryon