GILLIAN FLYNN is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dark Places, which was a New Yorker Reviewers' Favorite, Weekend TODAY Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction choice; and the Dagger Award winner Sharp Objects, which was an Edgar nominee for Best First novel, a BookSense pick, and a Barnes & Noble Discover selection. Her work has been published in twenty-eight countries. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son.
"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
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