The Grownup
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Gillian Flynn
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone.A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. “The Grownup,” which originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world’s most original and skilled voices in fiction.
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Author
Gillian Flynn
Pages
64
Publisher
Crown
Published Date
2015-11-03
ISBN
080418898X 9780804188982
Ratings
Google: 3
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"Super short and satisfying book. I had fun! I truly enjoyed the psychological and manipulative games in the plot. I wish I could find more books like that. "
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LeeLoo Dallas
"Gillian Flynn‘s short story knocks it out of the park as does all her books! Even though it’s a quick read, it fully delivers on everything we love about thrillers: great plot, characters, and tension. You can finish it in a single evening or a weekend if you’d rather stretch it out. But I strongly encourage reading it in one sitting, preferably with spooky weather outside 😉 "
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Joslyn
"I think this book desperately needed to be longer. Like, I’m left not knowing who I’m trusting. But I’d have probably dumped that kid at the closest rest area and bounced. "
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Brooke Gross-Gilbert
"Quick and intense"
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Kimberly Flanagan
"It started with promise and then failed miserably."
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Emily
"Short story, interesting plot, suspenseful and engaging. The ending is a bit unsettling. "
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Dani
"Too short! Even for a short story, it could’ve stood to have another 20 pages or so. "
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Ashley Rodgers
"4.5☆"
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Lars
"This book gave me trust issues😭. But i loved it so much!"
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aro
"Gillian Flynn is a mastermind. She does more with a short story than most authors do with a full length novel. Brilliant little story that threw me off and still has me wondering. And the book's acknowledgement only made it better."
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Allie Peduto
