Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Gillian Flynn
• Title: Gone Girl
• Publisher: ‎ Broadway Books
• Publication Date: August 26, 2014
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback ‏ -‎ 432 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 055341836X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0553418361
• Item Weight: ‎ .60 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 4.4 x 0.9 x 7.0 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (shows some minor discoloration on page edges)
• Cover Condition: Good (shows minor shelf wear)

Synopsis:

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? 

About the Author:

Gillian Schieber Flynn (born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. She is known for writing the thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012), which are all critically acclaimed. Her books have been published in 40 languages and according to The Washington Post, as of 2016 Gone Girl alone has sold more than 15 million copies.

Flynn wrote the script for the 2014 film adaptation of Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher. For it she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, among others.

The author also wrote and produced the HBO limited series adaptation of Sharp Objects—for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award—and co-wrote with director Steve McQueen the film Widows (2018).

Flynn also worked as a showrunner, writer, and executive producer on Amazon Prime Video's sci-fi thriller series Utopia (2020), which ran for one season.

She is currently writing her fourth novel; it is set to be published by Penguin Random House.

Flynn married lawyer Brett Nolan in 2007. They met during graduate school at Northwestern, and began a relationship in their thirties. They have two children. Their son Flynn was born in 2010 and their daughter Veronica was born in 2014. They reside in Chicago.