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Libby Day, the novel's narrator and protagonist, is the sole survivor of a massacre in Kinnakee, Kansas, a fictional rural town.On January 3, 1985, somewhere around 2 A.M., Libby overhears the murders of her 10-year-old sister Michelle, 9-year-old sister Debby, and mother, Patty, in what appears to be a Satanic cult ritual.
Flynn wrote Sharp Objects while working as a reporter for Entertainment Weekly, writing the novel during nights and weekends, a few hours at a time. [3] She described the process of maintaining the book's "moist", "gothic tone" as challenging, contrasting with the more upbeat style required for her day job.
Its worst problems arrive towards the end of the movie; the revelations about the past events in the house have a somewhat silly edge to them, and the movie loses a lot of steam in its final moments and ends with a whimper rather than a bang. In short, it’s watchable, but not very memorable." [10]
Dark Places may refer to: Dark Places, a mystery novel by Gillian Flynn; Dark Places, a 1973 British horror film; Dark Places, a 2015 mystery film, based on the Flynn novel "Dark Places" (song), a 2019 song by Beck from his album Hyperspace "Dark Places", a song by Hollywood Undead from Day of the Dead
Dark Places is a 2015 mystery film written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on Gillian Flynn's 2009 novel of the same name and stars Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult, and Chloë Grace Moretz. The film was released in France on April 8, 2015, [4] and in the United States on August 7, 2015, by A24. [5]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
George Harold "Hal" Bennett (April 21, 1930 – September 11, 2004) [1] [2] was an author known for a variety of books. His 1970 novel Lord of Dark Places was described as "a satirical and all but scatological attack on the phallic myth", [3] and was reprinted in 1997.
All the Broken Places is a sequel to Boyne's 2006 book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and follows Gretel, the now 91-year-old older sister of Bruno from that book. Gretel has lived in London for decades, never speaking of her childhood in Nazi Germany as the daughter of a concentration camp commandant.