Desperation - Softcover

King, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451191919 ISBN 13: 9780451191915

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

This is a limited leather-bound edition of two novels, "Deperation" by Stephen King and "The Regulators" by Richard Bachman.

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Review

A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ‘another legendary shadow,' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."

Review

A writer of excellence...one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel. (The Sunday Times)

A massive volume of terror crafted creepily (Daily Mail)

Genuinely masterful (Daily Telegraph)

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0451191919
• ISBN 13: 9780451191915
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 560