Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects

A Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims-a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story-and survive this homecoming. Praise for Sharp Objects "Nasty, addictive reading."-Chicago Tribune "Skillful and disturbing."-Washington Post "Darkly original . . . [a] riveting tale."-People

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House LLC US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 202g
• ISBN-13: 9780307341556
• ISBN-10: 0307341550
• Artikelnr.: 21274296

Autorenporträt

Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globe–nominated screenplay; the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects; and a novella, The Grownup. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.

© Jeff Sciortino

Rezensionen

To say this is a terrific debut novel is really too mild ... [it is] a relentlessly creepy family saga. I found myself dreading the last thirty pages or so, but was helpless to stop turning them. Then, after the lights were out, the story just stayed there in my head, coiled and hissing, like a snake in a cave Stephen King