Sharp Objects

Copyright © 2006 by Gillian Flynn

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Flynn, Gillian, 1971–

Sharp objects : a novel / Gillian Flynn.—1st ed.

1. Women journalists—Fiction. 2. Missouri—Fiction. 3. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3606.L935S53 2006

813'.6—dc22 2005035046

eISBN-13: 978-0-307-35148-7

eISBN-10: 0-307-35148-3

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