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Synopsis
Desperation - once a thriving town in the Nevada desert - now stands eerily empty, except for the local cop who patrols a lonely stretch of road where travellers don't expect to see another vehicle, let alone get stopped. But Desperation's cop doesn't just stop them, he seems to be expecting them.
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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)
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- ISBN 10 0753155222
- ISBN 13 9780753155226
- BindingHardcover
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