The Grownup af Gillian Flynn (Bog)

Forfatter: Gillian Flynn
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 0
Forlag: Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Udgivelsesår: 2015
A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old stepson Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural. However when she enters the house for the first time, she begins to feel it too, as if the very house is watching her, waiting, biding its time . . . 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.
Titel: The Grownup

Sammendrag: En navnløs kvindelig fortæller arbejder på en blandet clairvoyant-/sexshop, hvor hun lever af at snyde kunderne med falske psykiske læsninger. Da hun får Susan Burke som klient, bliver hun inviteret til det gotiske hus Carterhook Manor, hvor Susan bor med sin mand og sin problematiske stedsøn Miles. Susan mener, at huset er besat af en ond ånd, der påvirker Miles og truer familiens sikkerhed. Fortælleren er skeptisk, men oplever hurtigt selv, at huset virker fjendtligt og urovækkende. Hun bliver trukket ind i et psykologisk spil mellem den tilsyneladende hysteriske mor og den manipulerende teenager, hvor det er uklart, om truslen kommer fra noget overnaturligt, fra Miles eller fra Susans egen psykologi. Novellen slutter åbent og tvetydigt og efterlader læseren i tvivl om sandheden.
Type: Paperback