Sharp objects: a novel
"Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims--a bit too str…
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- Full title :Sharp objects : a novel / Gillian Flynn.
Summary
"Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims--a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story--and survive this homecoming."--Back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2006
- Edition:First Paperback Edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Broadway Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006
Notes
Originally published: New York : Shaye Areheart Books, 2006.
"Excerpt from Gone Girl copyright ©2012 by Gillian Flynn"--Title page verso.
Publication date taken from publisher's website.
The Physical Object
- Description:254 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780307341556, 0307341550, 9781435283107, 1435283104, 9780606367226, 0606367225
- oclc:ocn861688570
- LC Classification:PS3606.L935
- Dewey Decimal:813/.6
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