The girl on the train by paula hawkins, dark places by gillian flynn, sharp objects by. The series is centered on the fictional southern californian town of perdido beach, in which every human aged 15 and older vanishes. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. Gillian flynn reflects on the popularity and legacy of her 2012 novel gone girl. The author of gone girl says that allegations connecting missing connecticut mother jennifer dulos to her books main character who concocts her disappearance to make it seem as though her.
The novel soon made the new york times best seller list. The novel, her third, was met with cautious approval by her editor. Gillian flynn is an american author and television critic for entertainment weekly. Like gone girl, this novel features a duplicitous female. Gone girl author gillian flynn talks to emma brockes about her leap to.
Flynns novel takes a nutso turn in its second half that changes the trajectory and the tone of gone girl in a big way if youve read the book, you know were talking about desi, amys obsessive. She was formerly a television critic for entertainment weekly. The novel became quite popular and soon made the new york times best seller list. In the last decade, each of the author s novels has been adapted for the screen, with her lead characters.
Gillian flynn on her bestseller gone girl and accusations. Gone is a bestselling book series written by michael grant. Gillian flynn reflects on gone girl legacy, rise of anti. A books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
A former critic for entertainment weekly, she lives in chicago with her husband and children. Flynn has published three novels, sharp objects, dark places, and gone girl, all three of which have been adapted for film or television. Gone girl author gillian flynn is being linked to the case of missing connecticut author jennifer dulos, who disappeared in the connecticut. Gone girl exposes the irrational side of our fear of coupledom. Gillian flynns new novel, gone girl, is that rare thing. Heralded as the next gone girl by critics and readers alike, the girl on the train is a fastpaced novel of suspense and deception. Joshua rothman, the ideas editor of, has been a writer and an editor at the.
Gillian flynn has 23 books on goodreads with 5991839 ratings. The book version of gone girl, so ive heard, is a crime novel. Gone girl is a thriller novel in the mystery and crime genres, by the american writer gillian flynn. Gone girl is this author s third novel, after sharp objects and dark places. Flynn wrote the adaptations for the 2014 gone girl film and the hbo limited series sharp objects. Gone girl has taken the publishing world by storm with its disturbing portrayal of a relationship gone badly wrong. My first instinct after racing through gone girl was to find everything else that its author had ever written. Gone girl by gillian flynn the girl on the train by paula hawkins sharp objects. The novels suspense comes from the main character, nick dunne, and whether he is involved in the disappearance of his wife.
A story by the author of gone girl gillian flynn s edgar awardwinning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. Gillian flynn has 23 books on goodreads with 5973933 ratings. If you loved gone girl, try reading these 9 other books, too. Dear daughter by elizabeth little what the majority of the books on this list have in common, aside from being page turning thrillers, is a comparison to gone.