Dreamcatcher - Softcover

King, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340770724 ISBN 13: 9780340770726

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2002

Synopsis

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of IT and INSOMNIA), four young boys did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand.

A quarter-century later, the boys are men who still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their past and in the boy they once rescued as a child.

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Review:

What might be done to human beings by the "Other"--whether the "Other" be vampires, demons or creatures from outer space--is always in competition for absolute horror with what we do to ourselves. Stephen King has, in his time, played with both sources of the nightmarish and in Dreamcatcher, the first complete novel since his near-fatal accident, he gives us both.

Four childhood friends, united by secrets, are caught in the quarantine zone when something crashes into the remote forests of Maine; and the question becomes who will avoid being eaten alive by alien fungi, torn from the inside by alien ferrets, possessed by alien minds or menaced by a psychotic military commander to whom ruthlessness has become a macho ego trip?

The Earth is in peril as well, needless to say, but most of our attention is taken up with a few men caught on the edge, and where the most important thing in the world turns out to be the fact that four small boys saved a fifth from a beating.

This has the hall-marks of a good King novel--memorable catchphrases whose meaning we only gradually learn and a sense of how it feels to be human. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

Yet another masterpiece from Stephen King...a narrative that never loosens its grip (Evening Standard)

King has inspired a whole generation to read. He's made them read good, witty prose...a fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it...Dreamcatcher must be one of his best...difficult to forget (Express)

King-readers will be wholly satisfied by Dreamcatcher (The Sunday Times)

Nobody does it better (Daily Telegraph)

King retains his crown (Guardian)

Classic King...The characters here have a rare vitality and depth (Mail on Sunday)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0340770724
• ISBN 13: 9780340770726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704