From a Buick 8: A Novel - Softcover

King, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743417682 ISBN 13: 9780743417686

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2003

Synopsis

WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...?
In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle....

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Review:

In Stephen King's From a Buick 8, a group of Pennsylvania State Troopers find, and keep secret, the Buick 8, a "car" that is a portal between our world and some world far more horrid. Animals and occasionally people disappear around the Buick 8 and every so often something unpleasant comes through from the other side. The alien monsters here are creatures of pure disgust; King terrifyingly argues here that somewhere in the universe there are things for which we can have no fellow-feeling. All of the narrators are marked by the Buick 8--it is a focus for personal disaster--but they believe, rightly, that they are the competent authorities, that to hand it over would make things worse. After the death of one of the original Troopers, the rest gather round his teenage son, and tell him the tale; this is a book about storytelling and about listening and about not hearing what you are told. As such, it is a worthy fictional companion to King's excellent On Writing; significantly, its considerable strengths come partly from King's imagination, partly from the technical mastery that lets him play the narrators off against each other, and partly from research, from King's own capacity to listen to real cops. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"USA Today"

"From A Buick 8" is vintage King....[He] knows how to jolt his readers.

"USA Today""From A Buick 8" is vintage King....[He] knows how to jolt his readers.

"Publishers Weekly" Terrific entertainment...Goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean.

"USA Today" "From A Buick 8" is vintage King....[He] knows how to jolt his readers.

USA Today From A Buick 8 is vintage King....[He] knows how to jolt his readers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743417682
• ISBN 13: 9780743417686
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 496