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Gillian Flynn(1971)
Both her parents were professors, and Flynn, who was a shy child, spent much of her childhood reading and writing. She studied English and journalism at the University of Kansas, followed by a Master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University. After experimenting with police reporting and freelance journalism, she was hired by Entertainment Weekly in 1998, where she would go on to write as a film and television critic. Flynn's first novel, Sharp Objects, was published in 2006 while she was still working at Entertainment Weekly. The novel won a number of awards and was followed by her second novel, Dark Places in 2009. In 2008, Flynn was laid off from her job at Entertainment Weekly, an experience which she drew on in writing Gone Girl. Gone Girl, published in June 2012, is Flynn's most successful work to date.. Flynn is married to lawyer Brett Nolan and lives with him and their two children in Chicago.
The first part of the novel centers around Nick Dunne and his wife Amy's marriage. It alternates point of view between Nick and Amy, with Nick describing their relationship in the present day and Amy's diary entries depicting their relationship in the past. Their perspectives on their marriage are very different - Amy's diary portrays Nick as an aggressive, moody, idle and threatening husband while Nick describes Amy as someone who is needlessly difficult, antisocial, stubborn, and irrationally perfectionist.When Nick and Amy both lose their jobs in New York, they relocate to Nick's hometown in Missouri to help take care of Nick's sick mother. This causes their marriage to take a turn – Amy loved their life in New York and hates living in the midwest, and she soon begins to resent Nick for making her move to his hometown.On their wedding anniversary, Amy disappears without a trace, and over time, Nick becomes a suspect in her disappearance. Among other reasons, his lack of emotion about Amy's disappearance and the discovery that Amy was pregnant when she went missing lead both the police and the public to believe that Nick may have murdered his wife. Nick is revealed to In the second half of the book, the reader learns that the main characters are unreliable narrators, and that they are not being given all of the information.have been cheating on his wife and Amy is revealed to be alive and in hiding, and is trying to frame Nick for her "death" as revenge for his perceived wrongs against her. Her pregnancy and her diary entries are revealed to be fake; she fabricated them in order to further incriminate Nick.
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Essay and Interview by Gillian Flynn: http://gillian-flynn.com/for-readers/ Is Gone Girl Feminist or Misogynist? http://time.com/3472314/gone-girl-movie-book-feministmisogynist/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/authorgillianflynn/