Are you reading “Gone Girl” yet? If not, you should be. Katy Brand welcomes a book telling the tale of a young married couple. The story signals a move away from ‘the single gal’ as the principle driving force in fictional representations of women in popular culture.
Schlagwort-Archive: Gillian Flynn
Portrait: Gillian Flynn
The Missouri-born novelist’s thriller “Gone Girl” is not only a phenomenon, but is also tipped by many to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Rezension: Gillian Flynn: “Gone Girl”
“Gone Girl”, published in the US in June 2012 and out in paperback in the UK at the beginning of this year, has now sold more than 2m copies throughout the world – 300,000 of them over here.
Portrait: Gillian Flynn
Flynn went to journalism school with the aim of becoming a crime reporter but applied to Entertainment Weekly to be a television critic after realising she was “too unassertive” to succeed on the crime beat. After writing for 10 years she was made redundant.
Podcast: Crime fiction with Joseph Wambaugh and Gillian Flynn
In this week’s programme we track down some of the hottest American crime writers, and investigate the tradition that has created them. Wwith Gillian Flynn, Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Koryta and Peter Messent.
Rezension: Gillian Flynn: “Gone Girl”
“Gone Girl” is Flynn’s third novel and her biggest success. The book tells the story Amy Dunne, a Missouri woman who may or may not have been murdered by her husband, Nick, on the couple’s five-year anniversary.
MordsMittwoch: Trends des Tages
MordsWeiber: 10 Krimis für den Gabentisch der besten Freundin: 1. “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn, 2. “The End of Everything” by Megan Abbott, 3. “The End of the Wasp Season” by Denis Mina, 4. “Totensteige” von Christine Lehmann, 5. …
Service: Margaret Cannon’s top 10 crime fiction books of the year
(1) “Gone Girl”, by Gillian Flynn: One of the best mystery plots Cannon has ever read. Unexpected, unguessable, altogether great; (2) “Defending Jacob”, by William Landay: Brilliantly plotted, with great characters and an unforgettable ending …
Artikel: The Anti-Lisbeth Salanders: Gillian Flynn’s Tough Heroines
The books by Gillian Flynn are expertly constructed, totally spell-binding depictions of angry women trapped in twisted fantasy worlds of presumed male authority. More important, they subvert the battered heroine’s typically exploitative position.
Interview: Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 best-seller “Gone Girl”, talks with “The Interview Show” host Mark Bazer about the book (as much as she can without spoiling it), her life today and how to say “Missouri.” (Videobeitrag)
Kurzrezensionen: Flynn, Hughes, Millar, Highsmith, Lippman and others
Sarah Weinman’s summer reading list: smart crime fiction by Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), Dorothy B. Hughes (“In a Lonely Place”), Margaret Millar (“Beast in View”), Patricia Highsmith (“Deep Water”) Laura Lippman (“And When She Was Good”) and others.
Rezension: Gillian Flynn: “Gone Girl”
A demanding wife vanishes into thin air in Gillian Flynn’s brilliant, blackly comic crime novel, “Gone Girl” – What does a good crime novel do? At the very least, it must lure its reader into the classic rhythm of transgression and retribution, mystery and solution.
Rezension: Gillian Flynn: “Gone Girl”
Pat Benatar once famously sang about love being a battlefield, but it can scarcely ever have been such a twisted, dangerous and bloody war zone as depicted in this wonderfully crafted but excruciating thriller.
Rezension: Gillian Flynn: “Gone Girl”
Gillian Flynn’s ice-pick-sharp “Gone Girl” begins far too innocently by explaining how Nick and Amy Dunne celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary. Amy started making crepes, while humming the theme song from “M*A*S*H.” You know, that “suicide is painless” thing.