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An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.
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Why read Carrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.
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News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th."Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake
Guaranteed to chill you (New York Times)
Gory and horrifying . . . you can't put it down (Chigago Tribune)
[A] genius for storytelling (Daily Mirror )
One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep (Sunday Express)
Gory and horrifying . . . you can't put it down (Chigago Tribune)
[A] genius for storytelling (Daily Mirror )
One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep (Sunday Express)
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- PublisherCemetery Dance Pubns
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1587674793
- ISBN 13 9781587674792
- BindingLeather Bound
- Number of pages228
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Carrie [Doubleday Years Gift Edition]
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The first book in CD's six-volume series to reprint, in deluxe editions, the first six books King published with Doubleday. This was King's first book, a novel nearly lost to the trash. It also showed his tremendous ambition, even when he was a struggling writer trying to start a family on a teacher's salary. Carrie took the horror novel and turned the genre on its head, by centering the book on a menstruating high school girl. As Tabitha (Mrs. Stephen) King writes in her afterword to this edition, "I've never doubted at least some of the metaphorical use of menses emerged from Steve's experience of my PMS. Carrie's menses represents her essential femaleness, her fecundity, and brings with it enormous threatening power." This is one of 3000 slipcased copies, with illustrations by Tomislav Tikulin and Glenn Chadbourne. (There were also 750 traycased and 52 lettered copies.). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. In the publisher's shrinkwrap. Seller Inventory # 363551
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