The Other (novel)
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| Author | Thomas Tryon |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel, psychological horror |
| Published | May 1971 (Knopf) |
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| Pages | 272 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0394467443 |
| Followed by | Harvest Home (1973) |
The Other is the 1971 debut novel by Thomas Tryon. Set in 1935, the novel focuses on the sadistic relationship between two thirteen-year-old identical twin boys, one who is well-behaved, and the other, a sociopath who wreaks havoc on his family's rural New England farm property.
Tryon, who had been a working actor prior, retired from his Hollywood career to become a novelist. Upon its release, the novel received wide critical acclaim,[1] and was adapted into a 1972 film of the same name directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Uta Hagen. The novel was reprinted in a commemorative edition in 2012 by New York Review Books with an afterword by Dan Chaon.[2]
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