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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FIRST NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL "Riveting."--PEOPLE
"A terrific debut . . . elevated by sharp writing and sharper insights."--STEPHEN KING
"Keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction."--CHICAGO TRIBUNE 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. NOW AN HBO(R) LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
Sharp Objects
$18.00
"A terrific debut . . . elevated by sharp writing and sharper insights."--STEPHEN KING
"Keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction."--CHICAGO TRIBUNE 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. NOW AN HBO(R) LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- July 31, 2007
- ISBN
- 9780307341556
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- BISAC
- Fiction, Psychological, Thrillers, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
- Themes
- Family, Feminine
- Related subjects
- Girls, Murder, Psychic trauma in children, Women journalists, Psychiatric hospital patients, Investigation, Crimes against, Missouri, Self-mutilation, Domestic fiction, FICTION, Suspense, Thrillers, Homecoming, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Thrillers (Fiction)