Full Dark, No Stars: featuring 1922, now a Netflix film - Rilegato

King, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 1444712543 ISBN 13: 9781444712544

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself. 'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'. Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

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Praise for Under the Dome: (.)

'America's greatest living novelist delivers his masterpiece.' (Lee Child)

'King's most purely entertaining novel in years . . . utterly compelling.' (John Connolly)

'Tight and energetic from start to finish.' (New York Times)

'The pedal is indeed to the metal.' (Guardian)

'You're sorry when you come to the end.' (Daily Express)

Descrizione del libro:

On the heels of the stunning success of Under the Dome, Hodder's bestselling Stephen King title this decade, comes a collection of four brand new, darkly riveting and intimate stories.

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• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1444712543
• ISBN 13: 9781444712544
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352