E-audiobook
Sharp objects [electronic resource] : [a novel] / Gillian Flynn.
Record details
- ISBN: 0739346806 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780739346808 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Books on Tape, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 9:34:42. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Ann Marie Lee. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 137656 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Women journalists > Fiction. Missouri > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. Suspense fiction. |
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Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2007 February/March
Reporter Camille Preaker is working for a third-rate Chicago newspaper when her editor sends her back to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to cover the murder and mutilation of a young girl. Ann Marie Lee delivers this first-person narrative in a sleepy, depressed-sounding tone that also sounds, at times, petulant or patronizing. Still, Lee's delivery builds tension with chilling undertones. This gripping novel is a foray into multiple generations of a deeply troubled family, and Camille herself is a young woman with a past. The descriptions of violence are truly unsettling and sinister. Warning: This novel may create images that are, even with time, difficult to forget. K.A.T. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2006 July #2
A savage debut thriller that renders the Electra complex electric, the mother/daughter bond a psychopathic stranglehold.Camille Preaker is a cutter. At 13, she carved "queasy" above her navel, at 29, "vanish" on her neck. In the intervening years, she etched her entire epidermis from the chin down with cries for help. Entertainment Weekly TV critic Flynn discloses this information 60 pages into her explosive novel; before that, we know Camille as a hard-drinking, good-looking Jimmy Breslin wannabe, sent by a second-tier paper to cover two gruesome killings in her Missouri hometown. Nine-year-old Natalie's corpse was found jammed between the Cut-n-Curl Beauty Parlor and Bifty's Hardware nine months after another's girl's body was dumped in a creek. The murderer's grisly signature? Both strangled corpses had their teeth yanked out. As she snoops around, Camille gets hot for a cute detective and anxious in her mother's house. Haunted by the ghost of her sister, a child felled by mysterious illness, Camille warily befriends half-sister Amma, a snaky Lolita with precociously developed smarts and breasts. Bite-sized Queen of Mean who rules the town's teens, Amma joins Camille in shuddering at their mother, Aurora, an oh-so-proper virago who pulls down a million dollars a year running a pig slaughterhouse. Mommie Dearest is afflicted with an outré psychological disturbance: She inflicts illness on her loved ones to then prove her sweetness by nursing them. Could she be the slayer? Or perhaps an even more hideous revelation awaits? Flynn delivers a great whodunit, replete with hinting details, telling dialogue, dissembling clues. Better yet, she offers appalling, heartbreaking insight into the darkness of her women's lives: the Stepford polish of desperate housewives, the backstabbing viciousness of drug-gobbling, sex-for-favors Mean Girls, the simmering rage bound to boil over.Piercingly effective and genuinely terrifying. Copyright Kirkus 2006 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2006 December #1
Flynn's debut novel focuses on an emotionally fragile young woman whose sanity is being severely tested by family dysfunction, smalltown incivility and murder. It is a mesmerizing psychological thriller that is also quite disturbing and, thanks to reader Lee's chillingly effective rendition, at times almost unbearably so. Camille Preaker, a novice reporter with a history of self-mutilation, is sent to her hometown in Missouri to cover the murder of one teenage girl and the disappearance of another. There, she must face a variety of monsters from the past and the present, including her aloof and patronizing mother, her obnoxiously precocious 13-year-old stepsister who dabbles in drugs, sex and humiliation, and an unknown serial killer whose mutilated victims bring back haunting memories. Lee's interpretation of mom enhances the character's detachment and airy state of denial to an infuriating degree. And her abrupt change of pace when Camille suddenly begins chanting the words carved on her body is hair-raising. But the voice Lee gives to the stepsisterâtinged with a sarcastic, cynical and downright evil girly singsongâmakes one's blood run cold. Simultaneous release with the Shaye Areheart hardcover (Reviews, Aug. 21). (Oct.)
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