Gone Girl: A Novel

Gillian Flynn

Random House Publishing Group, Jun 5, 2012 - Fiction - 432 pages

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time).

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY TIME AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Slate • Kansas City Star • USA Today • Christian Science Monitor

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. 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. 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. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Tribune • HuffPost • Newsday

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User Review  - zmagic69 - LibraryThing

Here is who this book will not be good for. 1. people who don't like a story told from two different viewpoints. 2. People who don't like books that bounce back and forth between the past and the ...

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Series Info/Source: This is a stand alone book. I borrowed this on audiobook from my library. Thoughts: I waffled between 3 and 4 stars for this book. While I respect some of the clever twists and ...

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gone Girl: A Novel; 2018 Great American Read; Gone Girl: A Novel, Gillian Flynn; Popular reading collection
• Author: Gillian Flynn
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2012
• ISBN: 030758836X, 9780307588364
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense