Gone Girl is a novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June, 2012 and made the New York Times Best Seller list. Gone Girl fits into the thriller genre of contemporary novels. The novel's principal suspense comes from an uncertainty about the main character, Nick Dunne, and whether he killed his wife, Amy Dunne. The book was well received and reviewed throughout the English-speaking world, but was especially popular in the United States. In several interviews, Flynn has said that she was interested in exploring the psychology and dynamics of a long-term relationship. In portraying her principal characters who are out-of-work writers, she made use of her own experience being laid off from her job as a writer for Entertainment Weekly. Reviewers have praised the novel's use of unreliable narration, its surprising plot twists, its edge-of-the-seat suspense, and the way it transcends the thriller genre by playing with genre formulas and reader expectation. Some readers feel it straddles the loose boundary between genre novels and literature. Wikipedia [ - ]

Gone Girl is a novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing... [ + ]