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A carregar... Dark Places: A Novel (edição 2010)por Gillian Flynn
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. She survivedand famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Cluba secret society obsessed with notorious crimeslocates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: Shell reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the clubfor a fee. As Libbys search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she startedon the run from a killer. Praise for Dark Places [A] nerve-fraying thriller.The New York Times Flynns well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.The New Yorker Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In Dark Places, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn . . . has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. . . . [A] propulsive and twisty mystery.Entertainment Weekly Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark tale . . . The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. And when the truth emerges, its so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.People (4 stars) Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit. Dallas Morning News A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.Chicago Tribune "It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.New York Magazine [A] gripping thriller.Cosmopolitan "Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.Stephen King. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Dark Places is a fabulous journey, not only regarding the storyline, but the way words are used, how commas are placed, and the cadence of the sentences - it all flowed so seamlessly, so real, so unscripted. So many writers, myself included, can get hung up on the properness of grammar, syntax usage, and the transition of sentences - because we are told that is the 'right' way to write. Ms. Flynn wrote Dark Places from her characters' voices without regard to rules and "supposed tos," and she nailed it.
Suffice to say, the writing is what I am most thrilled about, but the plot does not fall short or even come in second place - it too is worthy of much reflection. Dark Places is the name a survivor of her family's murders uses when she recalls what took place when she was seven years old. The book twists from the murders to the present (twenty-five years later), following how Libby, the survivor, is coping while learning the truth about the murders that left her brother sitting in prison.
An outstanding story with excellent writing; both readers and writers will enjoy Dark Places. I will read another Gillian Flynn book. (