![]() Throughout the book, Amy attempts to project an image of perfection with her husband but as readers continue the story, they soon learn the dark identity she hides. “A wonderful, good-hearted woman - whole life ahead of her, everything going for her, whatever else they say about women who die - chooses the wrong mate and pays the ultimate price,” Flynn writes. Throughout the novel, the character transitions through identities (e.g., the cool girl, happy wife, unloved wife and scorned wife) all the while tackling the tropes of female victimhood. ![]() In Gone Girl, Amy projected the idea of a female villain who wasn’t just a nemesis to be jeered but also a mastermind to be cheered. What made Gone Girl so memorable and influential can vary among readers and audiences, but most recognized was that Flynn’s Amy was a fresh, if unnerving, take on the anti-heroine. Pike also received an Oscar nomination for best actress in 2015. ![]() Meanwhile the 2014 film adaptation starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as Amy, for which Flynn wrote the screenplay, grossed $370 million, becoming helmer David Fincher’s highest-grossing film in North America at the time. The book was selected as one of Time’s picks for the 10 best fiction books of the 2010s. ![]() But it was Gone Girl, her third novel, that would become a pop-culture phenomenon and one of the most memorable books of the decade.Īfter its 2012 release, the book spent eight weeks atop the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list and 52 weeks on the Washington Post bestsellers list. Lucy Liu to Narrate Audiobook of Celeste Ng's 'Our Missing Hearts' Novelįlynn - who landed on The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural list of the 25 most powerful authors in Hollywood in 2015 - is one of the most influential authors of the last decade, with each of her three best-selling works adapted for the big screen. ![]()
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