![]() Through her two ultimately unreliable narrators, Flynn masterfully weaves the slow trickle of critical details with 90-degree plot turns. Wickedly plotted and surprisingly thoughtful, this is a terrifically good read.” - The Boston Globe “ Gone Girl is that rare thing: a book that thrills and delights while holding up a mirror to how we live. 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. 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. 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. People love to talk about the banality of evil. As if that weren’t enough, Flynn has created a genuinely creepy villain you don't see coming. ![]() 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. 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 while you know you’re being manipulated, searching for the missing pieces is half the thrill of this wickedly absorbing tale.” - O: The Oprah Magazine “Ice-pick-sharp. As Nick and Amy alternately tell their stories, marriage has never looked so menacing, narrators so unreliable.” - The Wall Street Journal “The story unfolds in precise and riveting prose. Flynn has much more up her sleeve than a simple missing-person case. Flynn writes dark suspense novels that anatomize violence without splashing barrels of blood around the pages. In masterly fashion, Flynn depicts the unraveling of a marriage-and of a recession-hit Midwest-by interweaving the wife’s diary entries with the husband’s first-person account.” - The New Yorker “Ms. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, Newsday Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter-but is he really a killer? ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media-as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents-the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. ![]()
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