The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

A narrator working as a fortune teller is hired by a wealthy woman who fears something haunting her house. Fraud, ghost story, and psychological games overlap, keeping the real threat unstable to the end.

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Work Information

Human lies may enter a house more deeply than any haunting.

The award-winning original title was What Do You Do?. It was later published as the standalone book The Grownup, so that print ISBN is recorded. No anthology or magazine issue identifier is used.

Review Summaries

Readers value how the short length builds unease and how the dubious narrator draws them in. Because the ending remains open to interpretation, it tends to leave debate after reading.

Book Information

Publisher: Crown
Published: 2015-11-03
Pages: 64 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 12.07 x 0.99 x 18.57 cm
ISBN-13: 9780804188975
ISBN-10: 0804188971
Price: 2185 JPY
Category: 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Thrillers/Psychological & Suspense

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. “The Grownup,” which originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world’s most original and skilled voices in fiction.

Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl , for which she wrote the Golden Globe–nominated screenplay; the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects ; and a novella, The Grownup . A former critic for Entertainment Weekly , she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.

Reviews

Psychological thriller, awesome!!

Couldn’t put it down. I wanted to have more for the ending. So for that reason only I didn’t give it five start. I wanted more!!! :)
短い、つまらない

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The Grown-up

Mediocre story. After reading her other three stories, I was disappointed with the quality of this one.
Amei!

Comprei a versão da editora britânica e achei uma ótima edição, a folha é boa e tem uma ótima diagramação, recomendo!
Contenta

Llegó enseguida. Libro totalmente recomendable
Book in excellent condition - far-fetched and disappointing story

Having read Dark Places, Gone Girl, and Sharp Objects, which I enjoyed, I was looking forward to another creepy story with, possibly, a nice twist. The writing was enjoyable but the 2nd half of the book was disappointing, in my opinion.
Astounding - another winner from Flynn!

Classic Flynn - an excellent read! This really is a short story - I read it in an hour - but it's absolutely gripping! I didn't see the twist coming, and I had no idea in what direction she was taking the story; the sign of a truly remarkable writer. The story focuses on a clairvoyant (and not a 'real' one at that) who also works as a, ahem, giver of pleasure to men, who seemingly takes advantage of a female client who believes her home is cursed/haunted. She visits the clients home regularly, all the while pretending to be working at ridding the house of evil spirits, but learning more and more about the family as she goes. To say anymore would really give away the basis of the story, but it will grip you from the get-go and you won't be able to put it down, much like everything else Flynn writes. It's also a fabulous price, and well worth the couple of quid. I'll definitely read it again.
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