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Item specifics
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- Publication Date
- 2009-05-05
- Pages
- 349
- ISBN
- 9780307341563
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307341569
ISBN-13
9780307341563
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70926669
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dark Places
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Crime, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-040244
Reviews
"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." Stephen King "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Placesgrips you from the first page and doesn't let go." -Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debutSharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running.Dark Placesdemonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid, "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Placesgrips you from the first page and doesn't let go." -Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debutSharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running.Dark Placesdemonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid, "[A] nerve-fraying thriller." -The New York Times "Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice inSharp 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 "[A] gripping thriller." -Cosmopolitan "Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." Stephen King "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Placesgrips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debutSharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running.Dark Placesdemonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "A gritty, riveting thriller with a one-of-a-kind, tart-tongued heroine." -Booklist, starred review "Flynn's second crime thriller tops her impressive debut,Sharp Objects…When the truth emerges, it's so twisted that even the most astute readers won't have predicted it." -Publishers Weekly, starred review, "[A] nerve-fraying thriller." -The New York Times "Flynn's 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 inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming." -People(4 stars) "A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off." -Chicago Tribune "In her first psychological thriller,Sharp Objects,Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day....It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for." -New York "DARK PLACES' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at firstshe's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of thembut her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. 'I have a meanness inside me,'she says, 'real as an organ.'Yes she does, and by the end of this pitch-black novel, after we've loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we're glad Flynn decided to share it." Jessa Crispin, NPR.org "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every sentence. . . . The slick plotting in DARK PLACES will gratify the lover of a good thrillerbut so, too, will Flynn's prose, which is ferocious and unrelenting and pure pleasure from word one." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "Gillian Flynn's second novel, DARK PLACES,proves that her first Sharp Objects was no fluke. . . . tough, surprising crime fiction that dips its toes in the deeper waters of literary fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times "Flynn fully inhabits Libby-a damaged woman whose world has resided entirely in her own head for the majority of her life and who is prone to dark metaphors: 'Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.' Half the fun of DARK PLACES is Libby's swampy psychology, which Flynn leads us through without the benefit of hip waders." -Time Out Chicago "Clever, engrossing and disturbing….[DARK PLACES] should cement [Flynn's] place in the great authors of crime fiction." -Crimespree "[A] gripping thriller." -Cosmopolitan "[D]eliciously creepy...Flynn follows 250-some pages of masterful plotting and character development with a speedway pileup of pulse-pounding revelations." -<i, "[A] nerve-fraying thriller." -The New York Times "Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming." -People(4 stars) "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every sentence. . . . The slick plotting in DARK PLACES will gratify the lover of a good thrillerbut so, too, will Flynn's prose, which is ferocious and unrelenting and pure pleasure from word one." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "Gillian Flynn's second novel, DARK PLACES,proves that her first Sharp Objects was no fluke. . . . tough, surprising crime fiction that dips its toes in the deeper waters of literary fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times "Clever, engrossing and disturbing….[DARK PLACES] should cement [Flynn's] place in the great authors of crime fiction." -Crimespree "[A] gripping thriller." -Cosmopolitan "[D]eliciously creepy...Flynn follows 250-some pages of masterful plotting and character development with a speedway pileup of pulse-pounding revelations." -Chicago Reader "Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." Stephen King "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Placesgrips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debutSharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running.Dark Placesdemonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "A gritty, riveting thriller with a one-of-a-kind, tart-tongued heroine." -Booklist, starred review "Flynn's second crime thriller tops her impressive debut,Sharp Objects…When the truth emerges, it's so twisted that even the most astute readers won't have predicted it." -Publishers Weekly, starred review, "Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." Stephen King "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Placesgrips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debutSharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running.Dark Placesdemonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "A gritty, riveting thriller with a one-of-a-kind, tart-tongued heroine." -Booklist, starred review, AWeekend TODAY"Top Summer Read" "[A] nerve-fraying thriller." -The New York Times "Flynn's 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 inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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, it's 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 "In her first psychological thriller,Sharp Objects,Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day....It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for." -New York "[A] gripping thriller." -Cosmopolitan "DARK PLACES' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at firstshe's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of thembut her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. 'I have a meanness inside me,'she says, 'real as an organ.'Yes she does, and by the end of this pitch-black novel, after we've loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we're glad Flynn decided to share it." Jessa Crispin, NPR.org "Flynn returns to the front ranks of emerging thriller writers with her aptly titled new novel . . . Those who prefer their literary bones with a little bloody meat will be riveted." -Portland Oregonian "Gillian Flynn may turn out to be a more gothic John Irving for the 21st century, a writer who uses both a surgeon's scalpel and a set of rusty harrow discs to rip the pretty face off middle America." -San Jose Mercury News "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every sentence. . . . The slick plotting in DARK PLACES will gratify the lover of a good thrillerbut so, too, will Flynn's prose, which is ferocious and unrelenting and pure pleasure from word one." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "Gillian Flynn's second novel, DARK PLACES,proves that her first Sharp Objects was no fluke. . . . tough, surprising crime fiction that dips its toes in the deeper waters of literary fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times "Flynn fully inhabits Libby-a damaged woman whose world has resided entirely in her own head for the majority of her life and who, Named one of the Best Books of 2009 byPublishers Weekly AWeekend TODAY"Top Summer Read" "[A] nerve-fraying thriller." -The New York Times "Flynn's 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 inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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, it's 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 "In her first psychological thriller,Sharp Objects,Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day....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 "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "DARK PLACES' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at firstshe's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of thembut her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. 'I have a meanness inside me,'she says, 'real as an organ.'Yes she does, and by the end of this pitch-black novel, after we've loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we're glad Flynn decided to share it." Jessa Crispin, NPR.org "Flynn returns to the front ranks of emerging thriller writers with her aptly titled new novel . . . Those who prefer their literary bones with a little bloody meat will be riveted." -Portland Oregonian "Gillian Flynn may turn out to be a more gothic John Irving for the 21st century, a writer who uses both a surgeon's scalpel and a set of rusty harrow discs to rip the pretty face off middle America." -San Jose Mercury News "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every sentence. . . . The slick plotting in DARK PLACES will gratify the lover of a good thrillerbut so, too, will Flynn's prose, which is feroci, "Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice inSharp 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 "Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." Stephen King "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Placesgrips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debutSharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running.Dark Placesdemonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "A gritty, riveting thriller with a one-of-a-kind, tart-tongued heroine." -Booklist, starred review "Flynn's second crime thriller tops her impressive debut,Sharp Objects…When the truth emerges, it's so twisted that even the most astute readers won't have predicted it." -Publishers Weekly, starred review, "Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." Stephen King "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Placesgrips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debutSharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running.Dark Placesdemonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "A gritty, riveting thriller with a one-of-a-kind, tart-tongued heroine." -Booklist, starred review "Flynn's second crime thriller tops her impressive debut,Sharp Objects…When the truth emerges, it's so twisted that even the most astute readers won't have predicted it." -Publishers Weekly, starred review, Named one of the Best Books of 2009 byPublishers Weekly AWeekend TODAY"Top Summer Read" The New Yorker's Reviewers' Favorite from 2009 A 2009 Favorite Fiction Pick byThe Chicago Tribune "[A] nerve-fraying thriller." -The New York Times "Flynn's 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 inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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, it's 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 "In her first psychological thriller,Sharp Objects,Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day....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 "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "DARK PLACES' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at firstshe's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of thembut her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. 'I have a meanness inside me,'she says, 'real as an organ.'Yes she does, and by the end of this pitch-black novel, after we've loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we're glad Flynn decided to share it." Jessa Crispin, NPR.org "Flynn returns to the front ranks of emerging thriller writers with her aptly titled new novel . . . Those who prefer their literary bones with a little bloody meat will be riveted." -Portland Oregonian "Gillian Flynn may turn out to be a more gothic John Irving for the 21st century, a writer who uses both a surgeon's scalpel and a set of rusty harrow discs to rip the pretty face off middle America." -San Jose Mercury News "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every s
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Synopsis
"Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre."--Stephen King., I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived--and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who've long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details--proof they hope may free Ben--Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she'll admit her testimony wasn't so solid after all. As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby's doomed family members--including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
LC Classification Number
PS3606.L935D37 2009
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- m***m (2311)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI’m thrilled with my recent purchase . The website was user-friendly, and the product descriptions were accurate. Customer service was prompt and helpful, answering all my questions. My order arrived quickly, well-packaged, and the product exceeded my expectations in quality. I’m impressed with the attention to detail and the overall experience. I’ll definitely shop here again and highly recommend from this seller to others. Thank you for a fantastic experience!
- a***n (54)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMistakenly ordered a paperback that I thought was a hardcover, not sellers fault; it was described properly on the listing. Seller still processed a refund the day I went to return the item and let me keep the item anyway. A+++ service. Book arrived quickly in great condition and for a great price. Thank you so much! Amazing seller!
- n***c (96)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.