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| Publication Yr: | 2012 | Structure: | Hardcover |
| Language: | English | ISBN: |
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| Synopsis | |
| “Long past Girl” is a 2012 mystery fresh by Gillian Flynn that impressed the movie of the identical title. It tells a suspenseful legend just a few marriage that goes horribly execrable. The e book became launched to extreme acclaim and rapidly became one of basically the most a hit books of the year. The hardcover edition spent 78 weeks on the Fresh York Occasions Simplest Seller checklist and eight weeks on the pinnacle of it. Delight in this riveting page-turner and all of its surprises in hardcover structure.The unconventional captured readers’ attention attributable to its artful, multi-layered spot, which serves up unexpected twists. Though or no longer it is in general labeled as a mystery or thriller, “Long past Girl” is a style of books that transcends its genre. From the outside, it looks that Sever and Amy Dunne hold the valid marriage fats of bask in. On the opposite hand, on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing. That’s when all of the flaws and mistakes the couple had beforehand saved hidden almost about gentle. Soon, Amy’s husband turns into the principle suspect on the wait on of the disappearance of his wife. Though Sever insists he’s innocent, the proof continues to mount in opposition to him. The questions of what ended in Amy’s disappearance and what is going to happen to Sever makes the reader hungry to take hold of more and settle turning the pages of the e book. The unconventional alternates between Sever’s and Amy’s factors of peek. Since Amy is missing, her perspective is provided for the reader via diary entries recounting the historical past of their relationship. You choose up to idea Amy’s perspective of her husband, and his legend illustrates how he sees issues. They every hold diverse interpretations of key events as effectively. As in every other Gillian Flynn fresh, the truth is no longer what it looks. The valid reason on the wait on of Amy’s disappearance is more advanced than anybody has imagined.Gillian Flynn is well-known for darkish tales bask in “Long past Girl.” “Appealing Objects” informed the legend of a journalist who returned to her fatherland to portray on the case of a serial killer. “Darkish Places” featured a most important personality who went on a experience to gain out whether her brother murdered a household. Quite just a few Flynn’s characters are writers, and he or she herself became a journalist and tv critic for “Entertainment Weekly.” In books bask in “Long past Girl,” Flynn in general explores the psychology of relationships and the affect loneliness can hold on a person. Flynn’s writing has earned her nominations for plenty of awards, including the Edgar Award and the Females’s Prize for Fiction. She became the Global Author of the Yr (Nationwide Book Awards, UK) in 2013.“Long past Girl” became printed in hardcover structure by Crown Publishing Neighborhood in June of 2012. It didn’t win lengthy for the e book to turn out to be a success, and it became one of basically the most praised thrillers of the year. Better than two million copies of the thriller had been sold in 2012. The movie that came out of this legend in 2014 seen extreme and fresh success. The movie, which stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as Sever and Amy, became directed by David Fincher. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 030758836X |
| ISBN-13 | 9780307588364 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 110999908 |
| Key Limited print | |
| Author | Gillian Flynn |
| Number Of Pages | 432 pages |
| Structure | Hardcover |
| Publication Date | 2012-06-05 |
| Language | English |
| Author | Crown/Archetype |
| Publication Yr | 2012 |
| Extra Limited print | |
| Copyright Date | 2012 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 22.4 Oz19459034] |
| Prime | 1.4 In. |
| Width | 6.5 In. |
| Length | 9.4 In. |
| Target Target audience | |
| Neighborhood | Alternate |
| Classification Plan | |
| LCCN | 2011-041525 |
| LC Classification Number | PS3606.L935G66 2012 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.6 |
| Dewey Edition | 23 |
| Reports | |
| ” Long past Girl is with out doubt one of the significant acceptable and most gruesome portraits of psychopathy I’ve ever learn. Sever and Amy manipulate every other with savage, merciless and in general darkly witty dexterity. Right here’s a handsome and horrifying e book about how the jubilant floor normality and the underlying darkness can turn out to be too carefully interwoven to separate.” Tana French , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Devoted Jam and Into the Woods “The spot has all of it. I in actuality hold no question that in a year’s time I will most certainly be announcing that right here’s my authorized fresh of 2012. Gracious.” Kate Atkinson , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Started Early, Took My Dogs and Case Histories ” Long past Girl builds on the extra special achievements of Gillian Flynn’s first two books and delivers the reader into the claustrophobic world of a failing marriage. We all know the legend, comely? Beautiful wife disappears; husband doesn’t appear as distraught as he needs to be below the conditions. However Flynn takes this sturdy trope of the 24-hour news cycle and turns it inside of out, providing a devastating portrait of a marriage and a effectively timed, cautionary legend about an age in which everyone’s dreams look like imploding.” Laura Lippman , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of The Most Abominable Element and I could presumably Know You Wherever “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl is bask in Scenes from a Marriage remade by Alfred Hitchcock, an account for trap that’s the least bit times elegant and complete of characters who are utterly recognizable. Or no longer it is far a bask in legend wrapped in a mystery that asks the eternal quiz of all proper relationships gone inaccurate: How did we opt up from there to right here?” Adam Ross , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Mr. Peanut “Impartial this minute I accomplished every week of feeling betrayed, misled, manipulated, provoked, and misjudged, no longer to command having all my expectations confounded. Pondering about how compulsively I saved coming wait on for more, I’m critically pondering of going wait on to page one and doing all of it as soon as more.” Arthur Phillips , creator of The Tragedy of Arthur “I will no longer command this urgently sufficient: or no longer it is far a must to learn Long past Girl . Or no longer it is as if Gillian Flynn has mixed us a martini the usage of battery acid in its set of vermouth and a technique or the opposite managed to make it style in actuality, in actuality proper. Long past Girl is luscious and intoxicating and delightfully toxic. Or no longer it is smooth (just appropriate, if truth be told). Or no longer it is comic (within the darkest that that you just can factor in draw). The writing is jarringly proper, and the legend is, effectively…amazing. Learn the e book and you’re going to look-amongst many other treasures-factual how great freight (and dismay) that final adjective can undergo.” Scott Smith , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of The Ruins and A Easy Opinion “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl jogs my reminiscence of Patricia Highsmith on the pinnacle of her sport. With Long past Girl , she’s positioned herself on the pinnacle of the brief checklist of authors who hold mastered the art of crafting a anxious legend with terrifyingly believable characters.” Karin Slaughter , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Fallen “Flynn cements her spot amongst that elite community of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly voice the items…All over as soon as more Flynn has written an vivid, exciting tour de force, mixing a riveting spot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page.” Library Journal (starred evaluate) ” Long past Girl is with out doubt one of the significant acceptable �and most gruesome �portraits of psychopathy I’ve ever learn. Sever and Amy manipulate every other �with savage, merciless and in general darkly witty dexterity. Right here’s a handsome and horrifying e book about how the jubilant floor normality and the underlying darkness can turn out to be too carefully interwoven to separate.” Tana French , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Devoted Jam and Into the Woods “The spot has all of it. I in actuality hold no question that in a year’s time I will most certainly be announcing that right here’s my authorized fresh of 2012. Gracious.” Kate Atkinson , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Started Early, Took My Dogs and Case Histories ” Long past Girl builds on the extra special achievements of Gillian Flynn’s first two books and delivers the reader into the claustrophobic world of a failing marriage. We all know the legend, comely? Beautiful wife disappears; husband doesn’t appear as distraught as he needs to be below the conditions. However Flynn takes this sturdy trope of the 24-hour news cycle and turns it inside of out, providing a devastating portrait of a marriage and a effectively timed, cautionary legend about an age in which everyone’s dreams look like imploding.” Laura Lippman , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of The Most Abominable Element and I could presumably Know You Wherever “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl is bask in Scenes from a Marriage remade by Alfred Hitchcock, an account for trap that’s the least bit times elegant and complete of characters who are utterly recognizable. Or no longer it is far a bask in legend wrapped in a mystery that asks the eternal quiz of all proper relationships gone inaccurate: How did we opt up from there to right here?” Adam Ross , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Mr. Peanut “Impartial this minute I accomplished every week of feeling betrayed, misled, manipulated, provoked, and misjudged, no longer to command having all my expectations confounded. Pondering about how compulsively I saved coming wait on for more, I’m critically pondering of going wait on to page one and doing all of it as soon as more.” Arthur Phillips , creator of The Tragedy of Arthur “I will no longer command this urgently sufficient: or no longer it is far a must to learn Long past Girl . Or no longer it is as if Gillian Flynn has mixed us a martini the usage of battery acid in its set of vermouth and a technique or the opposite managed to make it style in actuality, in actuality proper. Long past Girl is luscious and intoxicating and delightfully toxic. Or no longer it is smooth (just appropriate, if truth be told). Or no longer it is comic (within the darkest that that you just can factor in draw). The writing is jarringly proper, and the legend is, effectively…amazing. Learn the e book and you’re going to look-amongst many other treasures-factual how great freight (and dismay) that final adjective can undergo.” Scott Smith , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of The Ruins and A Easy Opinion “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl jogs my reminiscence of Patricia Highsmith on the pinnacle of her sport. With Long past Girl , she’s positioned herself on the pinnacle of the brief checklist of authors who hold mastered the art of crafting a anxious legend with terrifyingly believable characters.” Karin Slaughter , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Fallen “Flynn cements her spot amongst that elite community of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly voice the items…All over as soon as more Flynn has written an vivid, exciting tour de force, mixing a riveting spot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page.” Library Journal (starred evaluate) “A nice wife’s disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare because it rips open grotesque secrets about his marriage and, factual presumably, his culpability in her death⊠A style of rare thrillers whose revelations if truth be told intensify its suspense in its set of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling.” – Kirkus (starred evaluate) “[W]hat appears to be like bask in a easy case of a husband killing his wife to free himself from a inaccurate marriage morphs into something utterly diverse in Flynn’s hands. As evidenced by her earlier work ( Appealing Objects , 2006, and Darkish Places , 2009), she possesses a disturbing worldview, one critically amped up by her bent humorousness. Both a compelling thriller and a searing portrait of marriage, this could well be Flynn’s breakout fresh. It contains so many twists and turns that the is impossible to foretell.” – Booklist (starred evaluate) “Flynn cements her spot amongst that elite community of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly voice the items…All over as soon as more Flynn has written an vivid, exciting tour de force, mixing a riveting spot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page.” – Library Journal (starred evaluate) “Flynn masterfully lets this legend of a marriage gone toxically execrable gradually emerge via alternating accounts by Sever and Amy, each unreliable narrators in their bear techniques. The reader comes to look their layers of deceit via a route of identical to that at work within the imploding relationship. Compulsively readable, creepily unforgettable, right here’s a must learn for any fan of inaccurate girls and proper writing.” – Publishers Weekly (starred evaluate) ” Long past Girl is with out doubt one of the significant acceptable Âand most gruesome Âportraits of psychopathy I”ve ever learn. Sever and Amy manipulate every other Âwith savage, merciless and in general darkly witty dexterity. Right here’s a handsome and horrifying e book about how the jubilant floor normality and the underlying darkness can turn out to be too carefully interwoven to separate.” Tana French , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Devoted Jam and Into the Woods “The spot has all of it. I in actuality hold no question that in a year’s time I will most certainly be announcing that right here’s my authorized fresh of 2012. Gracious.” Kate Atkinson , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Started Early, Took My Dogs and Case Histories ” Long past Girl builds on the extra special achievements of Gillian Flynn”s first two books and delivers the reader into the claustrophobic world of a failing marriage. We all know the legend, comely? Beautiful wife disappears; husband doesn”t appear as distraught as he needs to be below the conditions. However Flynn takes this sturdy trope of the 24-hour news cycle and turns it inside of out, providing a devastating portrait of a marriage and a effectively timed, cautionary legend about an age in which everyone”s dreams look like imploding.” Laura Lippman , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of The Most Abominable Element and I could presumably Know You Wherever “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl is bask in Scenes from a Marriage remade by Alfred Hitchcock, an account for trap that’s the least bit times elegant and complete of characters who are utterly recognizable. Or no longer it is far a bask in legend wrapped in a mystery that asks the eternal quiz of all proper relationships gone inaccurate: How did we opt up from there to right here?” Adam Ross , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Mr. Peanut “Impartial this minute I accomplished every week of feeling betrayed, misled, manipulated, provoked, and misjudged, no longer to command having all my expectations confounded. Pondering about how compulsively I saved coming wait on for more, I’m critically pondering of going wait on to page one and doing all of it as soon as more.” Arthur Phillips , creator of The Tragedy of Arthur “I will no longer command this urgently sufficient: or no longer it is far a must to learn Long past Girl . Or no longer it is as if Gillian Flynn has mixed us a martini the usage of battery acid in its set of vermouth and a technique or the opposite managed to make it style in actuality, in actuality proper. “Flynn cements her spot amongst that elite community of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly voice the items…All over as soon as more Flynn has written an vivid, exciting tour de force, mixing a riveting spot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page.” Library Journal (starred evaluate) ” Long past Girl is with out doubt one of the significant acceptable �and most gruesome �portraits of psychopathy I”ve ever learn. Sever and Amy manipulate every other �with savage, merciless and in general darkly witty dexterity. Right here’s a handsome and horrifying e book about how the jubilant floor normality and the underlying darkness can turn out to be too carefully interwoven to separate.” Tana French , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Devoted Jam and Into the Woods “The spot has all of it. I in actuality hold no question that in a year’s time I will most certainly be announcing that right here’s my authorized fresh of 2012. Gracious.” Kate Atkinson , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Started Early, Took My Dogs and Case Histories ” Long past Girl builds on the extra special achievements of Gillian Flynn”s first two books and delivers the reader into the claustrophobic world of a failing marriage. We all know the legend, comely? Beautiful wife disappears; husband doesn”t appear as distraught as he needs to be below the conditions. However Flynn takes this sturdy trope of the 24-hour news cycle and turns it inside of out, providing a devastating portrait of a marriage and a effectively timed, cautionary legend about an age in which everyone”s dreams look like imploding.” Laura Lippman , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of The Most Abominable Element and I could presumably Know You Wherever “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl is bask in Scenes from a Marriage remade by Alfred Hitchcock, an account for trap that’s the least bit times elegant and complete of characters who are utterly recognizable. Or no longer it is far a bask in legend wrapped in a mystery that asks the eternal quiz of all proper relationships gone inaccurate: How did we opt up from there to right here?” Adam Ross , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Mr. Peanut “Impartial this minute I accomplished every week of feeling betrayed, misled, manipulated, provoked, and misjudged, no longer to command having all my expectations confounded. Pondering about how compulsively I saved coming wait on for more, I’m critically pondering of going wait on to page one and doing all of it as soon as more.” Arthur Phillips , creator of The Tragedy of Arthur “I will no longer command this urgently sufficient: or no longer it is far a must to learn Long past Girl . Or no longer it is as if Gillian Flynn has mixed us a martini the usage of battery acid in its set of vermouth and a technique or the opposite managed to make it style in actuality, in actuality proper. Long past Girl is luscious and intoxicating and delightfully toxic. Or no longer it is smooth (just appropriate, if truth be told). Or no longer it is comic (within the darkest that that you just can factor in draw). The writing is jarringly proper, and the legend is, effectively…amazing. Learn the e book and you”ll look-amongst many other treasures-factual how great freight (and dismay) that final adjective can undergo.” Scott Smith , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of The Ruins and A Easy Opinion “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl jogs my reminiscence of Patricia Highsmith on the pinnacle of her sport. With Long past Girl , she’s positioned herself on the pinnacle of the brief checklist of authors who hold mastered the art of crafting a anxious legend with terrifyingly believable characters.” Karin Slaughter , Fresh York Occasions bestselling creator of Fallen ” Long past Girl manages to be so many stellar issues -suspenseful, inventive, chilling, comic, unsettling-as effectively as beautifully plotted and fiercely effectively-written. Gillian Flynn is a thrilling creator.” Kate Christensen , creator of The Wide Man “Ice-take hold of-spellbinding… Spectacularly sneaky… Impressively cagey… Long past Girl is Ms. Flynn”s ultimate leap forward. It’s wily, fast, subtly layered and populated by characters so effectively imagined that they”re no longer easy to portion with — despite the truth that, as in Amy”s case, they are already departed. And ought to that you just can presumably merely hold any doubts about whether Ms. Flynn measures up to Patricia Highsmith”s level of discreet malice, experience wait on and witness on the diminutive significant factors. No matter you raced past on a first-rate studying will witness utterly diverse the second time round.” –Janet Maslin, Fresh York Occasions “An ingenious and viperish thriller… It”s going to make Gillian Flynn a well-known person… The first half of Long past Girl is a nimble, caustic riff on our Nancy Grace custom and the style in which ””The butler did it”” has morphed into ””The husband did it.”” The second half is the valid stunner, though. Now I in actuality am going to shut up earlier than I ruin what straight away shifts into a immense, breathless learn. At the same time as Long past Girl grows in actuality bent and wild, it says smooth issues about how tenuous energy kinfolk are between men and girls, and how in general couples are on the mercy of forces past their make a choice watch over. As if that weren”t sufficient, Flynn has created a truly creepy villain you don”t idea coming. Other folks bask in to chat in regards to the banality of spoiled. You”re about to meet a maniac that you just can presumably plunge in bask in with.” — Jeff Giles, Entertainment Weekly “An irresistible summer season thriller with a twisting spot appropriate of Alfred Hitchcock. Burrowing deep into the murkiest corners of the human psyche, this appetizing summer season learn will give you the creeps and settle you on edge until the final page.” –Other folks (four stars) “[A] thoroughbred thriller in regards to the nature of identity and the gruesome secrets that could continue to exist and thrive in even basically the most intimate relationships. Long past Girl begins as a whodunit, but by the waste it’ll hold you questioning whether there”s this sort of thing as a who the least bit.” — Lev Grossman, Time “How did issues opt up so inaccurate? That”s the reason to learn this e book. Gillian Flynn — whose award-winning Darkish Places and Appealing Objects furthermore shone a melancholy gentle on irregular and creepy, no longer to command uber dysfunctional characters — delves this time into what happens when two of us marry and one partner has no notion who their loved in actuality is.” — USA At the present time, Carol Memmott “It”s merely advantageous: horrifying, darkly comic and at occasions transferring. The minute I accomplished it I needed to originate all of it as soon as as soon as more. Admirers of Gillian Flynn”s earlier books, Appealing Objects and Darkish Places , will most certainly be overjoyed over Long past Girl , her most intricately bent and deliciously sinful legend, bad for any reader who prefers to bask in a fresh in its set of sharp it complete in a single sitting….” — Associated Press, Michelle Weiner “Gillian Flynn”s third fresh is each breakneck-paced thriller and masterful dissection of marital breakdown… Wickedly plotted and surprisingly considerate, right here’s a terrifically proper learn.” — Boston Globe “That adage of no one knows what goes on on the wait on of closed doors strikes the spot of Long past Girl , Gillian Flynn”s suspenseful psychological thriller… Flynn”s unpredictable spot of Long past Girl careens down an emotional freeway the set this couple dissects their marriage with spellbinding acumen… Flynn has proven her abilities at exciting tales and enhanced personality reviews since her debut Appealing Objects , which garnered an Edgar nod, amongst other nominations. Her second fresh Darkish Places made a immense number of higher of lists. Long past Girl reaffirms her talent.” — South Florida Sun-Sentinel , Oline Cogdill “A immense crime fresh, however, is an unstable thing, entertainment and literature suspended in some undetermined solution. Make a selection Gillian Flynn”s Long past Girl , the third fresh by one of a trio of contemporary girls writers (the others are Kate Atkinson and Tana French) who are kicking the genre into the next tools… “Ice-take hold of-sharp⊠Spectacularly sneaky⊠Impressively cagey⊠Long past Girl is Ms. Flynn’s ultimate leap forward. It’s wily, fast, subtly layered and populated by characters so effectively imagined that they are no longer easy to portion with – despite the truth that, as in Amy’s case, they are already departed. And ought to that you just can presumably merely hold any doubts about whether Ms. Flynn measures up to Patricia Highsmith’s level of discreet malice, experience wait on and witness on the diminutive significant factors. No matter you raced past on a first-rate studying will witness utterly diverse the second time round.” -Janet Maslin, Fresh York Occasions “An ingenious and viperish thriller⊠Or no longer it’ll make Gillian Flynn a star⊠The first half of Long past Girl is a nimble, caustic riff on our Nancy Grace custom and the style in which ””The butler did it”” has morphed into ””The husband did it.”” The second half is the valid stunner, though. Now I in actuality am going to shut up earlier than I ruin what straight away shifts into a immense, breathless learn. At the same time as Long past Girl grows in actuality bent and wild, it says smooth issues about how tenuous energy kinfolk are between men and girls, and how in general couples are on the mercy of forces past their make a choice watch over. As if that weren’t sufficient, Flynn has created a truly creepy villain you don”t idea coming. Other folks bask in to chat in regards to the banality of spoiled. That it’s essential to presumably very effectively be about to meet a maniac that you just can presumably plunge in bask in with. A ” – Jeff Giles, Entertainment Weekly “An irresistible summer season thriller with a twisting spot appropriate of Alfred Hitchcock. Burrowing deep into the murkiest corners of the human psyche, this appetizing summer season learn will give you the creeps and settle you on edge until the final page.” Other folks (four stars) “A portrait of a marriage so hilariously horrifying, it’ll make that you just can presumably merely hold an valid no longer easy mediate about who the person on the opposite aspect of the mattress in actuality is. This fresh is so bogglingly twisty, we can finest give you the preliminary premise: on their fifth anniversary, Sever Dunne’s loved wife Amy disappears, and all indicators show very rotten play indeed. Sever has to determined his title earlier than the police finger him for Amy’s execute.” -TIME “Readers who take hold of more virulent lines of unreality will love the sneaky mind video games of Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl , a thriller rooted within the portrait of a elaborate and insecure marriage.” – Fresh York Occasions “In this like a flash-paced thriller, Flynn tracks the disintegration of a marriage and asks: How does a pair experience from uttering passionate vows to residing separate lives?” – All You “A nice wife’s disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare because it rips open grotesque secrets about his marriage and, factual presumably, his culpability in her death⊠A style of rare thrillers whose revelations if truth be told intensify its suspense in its set of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling.” – Kirkus (starred evaluate) “[W]hat appears to be like bask in a easy case of a husband killing his wife to free himself from a inaccurate marriage morphs into something utterly diverse in Flynn’s hands. As evidenced by her earlier work ( Appealing Objects , 2006, and Darkish Places , 2009), she possesses a disturbing worldview, one critically amped up by her bent humorousness. Both a compelling thriller and a searing portrait of marriage, this could well be Flynn’s breakout fresh. It contains so many twists and turns that the is impossible to foretell.” – Booklist (starred evaluate) “Flynn cements her spot amongst that elite community of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly voice the items…All over as soon as more Flynn has written an vivid, exciting tour de force, mixing a riveting spot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page.” – Library Journal (starred evaluate) “Flynn masterfully lets this legend of a marriage gone toxically execrable gradually emerge via alternating accounts by Sever and Amy, each unreliable narrators in their bear techniques. “Ice-take hold of-spellbinding… Spectacularly sneaky… Impressively cagey… Long past Girl is Ms. Flynn’s ultimate leap forward. It’s wily, fast, subtly layered and populated by characters so effectively imagined that they are no longer easy to portion with – despite the truth that, as in Amy’s case, they are already departed. And ought to that you just can presumably merely hold any doubts about whether Ms. Flynn measures up to Patricia Highsmith’s level of discreet malice, experience wait on and witness on the diminutive significant factors. No matter you raced past on a first-rate studying will witness utterly diverse the second time round.” -Janet Maslin, Fresh York Occasions “An ingenious and viperish thriller… Or no longer it’ll make Gillian Flynn a well-known person… The first half of Long past Girl is a nimble, caustic riff on our Nancy Grace custom and the style in which ””The butler did it”” has morphed into ””The husband did it.”” The second half is the valid stunner, though. Now I in actuality am going to shut up earlier than I ruin what straight away shifts into a immense, breathless learn. At the same time as Long past Girl grows in actuality bent and wild, it says smooth issues about how tenuous energy kinfolk are between men and girls, and how in general couples are on the mercy of forces past their make a choice watch over. As if that weren’t sufficient, Flynn has created a truly creepy villain you don”t idea coming. Other folks bask in to chat in regards to the banality of spoiled. That it’s essential to presumably very effectively be about to meet a maniac that you just can presumably plunge in bask in with. A ” – Jeff Giles, Entertainment Weekly “An irresistible summer season thriller with a twisting spot appropriate of Alfred Hitchcock. Burrowing deep into the murkiest corners of the human psyche, this appetizing summer season learn will give you the creeps and settle you on edge until the final page.” Other folks (four stars) “A portrait of a marriage so hilariously horrifying, it’ll make that you just can presumably merely hold an valid no longer easy mediate about who the person on the opposite aspect of the mattress in actuality is. This fresh is so bogglingly twisty, we can finest give you the preliminary premise: on their fifth anniversary, Sever Dunne’s loved wife Amy disappears, and all indicators show very rotten play indeed. Sever has to determined his title earlier than the police finger him for Amy’s execute.” -TIME “Readers who take hold of more virulent lines of unreality will love the sneaky mind video games of Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl , a thriller rooted within the portrait of a elaborate and insecure marriage.” – Fresh York Occasions “In this like a flash-paced thriller, Flynn tracks the disintegration of a marriage and asks: How does a pair experience from uttering passionate vows to residing separate lives?” – All You “A nice wife’s disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare because it rips open grotesque secrets about his marriage and, factual presumably, his culpability in her death… A style of rare thrillers whose revelations if truth be told intensify its suspense in its set of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling.” – Kirkus (starred evaluate) “[W]hat appears to be like bask in a easy case of a husband killing his wife to free himself from a inaccurate marriage morphs into something utterly diverse in Flynn’s hands. As evidenced by her earlier work ( Appealing Objects , 2006, and Darkish Places , 2009), she possesses a disturbing worldview, one critically amped up by her bent humorousness. Both a compelling thriller and a searing portrait of marriage, this could well be Flynn’s breakout fresh. It contains so many twists and turns that the is impossible to foretell.” – Booklist (starred evaluate) “Flynn cements her spot amongst that elite community of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly voice the items…All over as soon as more Flynn has written an vivid, exciting tour de force, mixing a riveting spot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page.” – Library Journal (starred evaluate) “Flynn masterfully lets this legend of a marriage gone toxically execrable gradually emerge via alternating accounts by Sever and Amy, each unreliable narrators in their bear techniques. “Readers who take hold of more virulent lines of unreality will love the sneaky mind video games of Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girl, a thriller rooted within the portrait of a elaborate and insecure marriage.” – Fresh York Occasions “In this like a flash-paced thriller, Flynn tracks the disintegration of a marriage and asks: How does a pair experience from uttering passionate vows to residing separate lives?” – All You “A nice wife’s disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare because it rips open grotesque secrets about his marriage and, factual presumably, his culpability in her death⊠A style of rare thrillers whose revelations if truth be told intensify its suspense in its set of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling.” – Kirkus (starred evaluate) “[W]hat appears to be like bask in a easy case of a husband killing his wife to free himself from a inaccurate marriage morphs into something utterly diverse in Flynn’s hands. As evidenced by her earlier work ( Appealing Objects, 2006, and Darkish Places, 2009), she possesses a disturbing worldview, one critically amped up by her bent humorousness. Both a compelling thriller and a searing portrait of marriage, this could well be Flynn’s breakout fresh. It contains so many twists and turns that the is impossible to foretell.” – Booklist (starred evaluate) “Flynn cements her spot amongst that elite community of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly voice the items…All over as soon as more Flynn has written an vivid, exciting tour de force, mixing a riveting spot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page.” – Library Journal (starred evaluate) “Flynn masterfully lets this legend of a marriage gone toxically execrable gradually emerge via alternating accounts by Sever and Amy, each unreliable narrators in their bear techniques. The reader comes to look their layers of deceit via a route of identical to that at work within the imploding relationship. Compulsively readable, creepily unforgettable, right here’s a must learn for any fan of inaccurate girls and proper writing.” – Publishers Weekly (starred evaluate) ” Long past Girlis one of the significant acceptable Âand most gruesome Âportraits of psychopathy I”ve ever learn. Sever and Amy manipulate every other Âwith savage, merciless and in general darkly witty dexterity. Right here’s a handsome and horrifying e book about how the jubilant floor normality and the underlying darkness can turn out to be too carefully interwoven to separate.” Tana French, Fresh York Timesbestselling creator of Devoted Placeand Into the Woods “The spot has all of it. I in actuality hold no question that in a year’s time I will most certainly be announcing that right here’s my authorized fresh of 2012. Gracious.” Kate Atkinson, Fresh York Timesbestselling creator of Started Early, Took My Dogand Case Histories ” Long past Girlbuilds on the extra special achievements of Gillian Flynn”s first two books and delivers the reader into the claustrophobic world of a failing marriage. We all know the legend, comely? Beautiful wife disappears; husband doesn”t appear as distraught as he needs to be below the conditions. However Flynn takes this sturdy trope of the 24-hour news cycle and turns it inside of out, providing a devastating portrait of a marriage and a effectively timed, cautionary legend about an age in which everyone”s dreams look like imploding.” Laura Lippman, Fresh York Timesbestselling creator of The Most Abominable Thingand I could presumably Know You Wherever “Gillian Flynn’s Long past Girlis bask in Scenes from a Marriageremade by Alfred Hitchcock, an account for trap that’s the least bit times elegant and complete of characters who are utterly recognizable. Or no longer it is far a bask in legend wrapped in a mystery that asks the eternal quiz of all proper relationships gone inaccurate: How did we opt up from there to right here?” Adam Ross, Fresh York Timesbestselling creator of Mr. Peanut “Impartial this minute I accomplished every week of feeling betrayed, misled, manipulated, provoked, and misjudged, no longer to command having all my expectations confounded. | |
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