Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globe-nominated screenplay, and the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.
"Ice-pick-sharp . . . spectacularly sneaky . . . impressively cagey
. . . Gone Girl is Ms. Flynn's dazzling breakthrough. It is
wily, mercurial, subtly layered and populated by characters so well
imagined that they're hard to part with."--Janet Maslin, The
New York Times
"An ingenious and viperish thriller . . . Even as Gone
Girl grows truly twisted and wild, it says smart things about
how tenuous power relations are between men and women, and how
often couples are at the mercy of forces beyond their control. As
if that weren't enough, Flynn has created a genuinely creepy
villain you don't see coming. People love to talk about the
banality of evil. You're about to meet a maniac you could fall in
love with." --Jeff Giles, Entertainment Weekly
"An irresistible summer thriller with a twisting plot worthy
of Alfred Hitchcock. Burrowing deep into the murkiest corners of
the human psyche, this delectable summer read will give you the
creeps and keep you on edge until the last page."--People (four
stars)
"It's simply fantastic: terrifying, darkly funny and at times
moving. . . . [Gone Girl is] her most intricately twisted
and deliciously sinister story, dangerous for any reader who
prefers to savor a novel as opposed to consuming it whole in one
sitting."--Michelle Weiner, Associated Press "Gillian
Flynn's third novel is both breakneck-paced thriller and masterful
dissection of marital breakdown. . . . Wickedly plotted and
surprisingly thoughtful, this is a terrifically good
read."--Boston Globe "Gone Girl is that rare thing: a
book that thrills and delights while holding up a mirror to how we
live. . . . Through her two ultimately unreliable narrators, Flynn
masterfully weaves the slow trickle of critical details with
90-degree plot turns. . . . Timely, poignant and emotionally rich,
Gone Girl will peel away your comfort levels even as you
root for its protagonists--despite your best intuition."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Gillian Flynn's barbed and
brilliant Gone Girl has two deceitful, disturbing, irresistible
narrators and a plot that twists so many times you'll be
dizzy."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Flynn is a master
manipulator, deftly fielding multiple unreliable narrators,
sardonic humor, and social satire in a story of a marriage gone
wrong that makes black comedies like The War of the Rosesand Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf look like scenes from a honeymoon. . . .
It is, in a word, amazing."--Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science
Monitor
"Gone Girl [is] a thriller with an insane twist and an insidiously
realistic take on marriage."--New York
"Brilliantly constructed and consistently absorbing . . . The
novel, which twists itself into new shapes, works as a page-turning
thriller, but it's also a study of marriage at its most
destructive."--Columbus
Dispatch
Flynn's bestselling novel is a dark and cynical treatise on how malignant a marriage can become when the wrong people say "I do." The book begins with Nick Dunne's first-person account of wife Amy's disappearance on their fifth wedding anniversary and his subsequent encounters with the local North Carthage, Miss., homicide detectives who suspect him of murder. Interspersed throughout the book are Amy's diary entries, which chart her possibly unreliable version of her and Nick's meeting, marriage, and eventual growing apart. This literary setup is perfect for the dueling narration provided by Julia Whelan and Kirby Heyborne. The latter has a soft, youthful delivery that registers a vague sincerity that could also be interpreted as sarcasm-just the sort of voice one might expect from an intelligent, oddly disaffected, potential wife killer. Whelan's version of Amy is filled with entitlement, egotism, and the edgy anger of a genuine or imagined victim. The combined narration of Whelan and Heyborne infuse Flynn's bestseller with an energy that audio fans will find even more satisfying. A Crown hardcover. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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