Saturday, September 1, 2012

Gone girl, by Gillian Flynn


Wow!  Who knew sociopaths could be so entertaining.  A breathless read with intertwining stories from the husband and the disappeared wife.  Amy, of Amazing Amy fame, a beloved children’s series written by her parents, and Nick (that’s Lance Nicholas Dunne) are a beautiful, wealthy and successful married couple living in a fabulous Brooklyn brownstone.  When both lose their jobs, and Nick’s mother is dying in the small town near Hannibal MO where Nick and his twin sister Margo grew up, it seems prudent to cut their East Coast losses and move back to be near family during this crisis.  But much is not what it seems, and when Amy disappears on the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, a couple of years after they have relocated, suspicion fall on Nick – it’s always the husband, right?  What follows is a roller-coaster ride of a book with a succession of surprises at the end.  One wonders about a sequel, 20 years or so later, that might rival Rosemary’s baby.  415 pp.

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