The Grownup: A short story by the author of Gone Girl by Flynn, Gillian(November 3, 2015) Hardcover
by:
Gillian Flynn (author)
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: B014S2XBB0
Publish date: 1705
Publisher: Crown
Edition language: English
Huh. Well that sure was something. I'm not sure what, precisely, but something for sure. This is really a short story packaged as a novella. There's not a lot of meat on these bones, but what is there is interesting. The voice is strong and the language evocative. This one is best experienced rather...
Very junior and bad concept. Bad story development. Substitutes supposedly "shocking" language about sex for actual interesting story. Seems this author doesn't know how to pull emotions from story, so relies on sexual imagery as a poor substitute. No twist that isn't a very standard, average "who c...
I didn't stop giving hand jobs because I wasn't good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it. Skilled as a con artist from a young age, an unnamed woman has morphed her business of deception as a soft-core sex worker and then later, a psychological intuitive. When she meets Su...
Super short - read this in less than an hour. But yeah, typical Gillian. You know there's going to be a twist, so you keep waiting for it and trying to figure it out, and damn if she doesn't just surprise you anyways! And even when the twist is revealed...is it really what it seems? Okay, now we kno...
The unnamed narrator is leaving her old job of pro hand job giver and moving on to fortune teller. As a fortune teller she meets a mousy woman named Susan Burke. Susan hires the unnamed narrator to cleanse her old house of evil. But she may be in over her head. I liked the main character; actually...
8 years ago
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