Blaze (Ldp Litt.Fantas)

King, Stephen

3.76

51,068 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 2253022632 ISBN 13: 9782253022633

Publisher: Livre de Poche, 2010

Colosse au cerveau ramolli par les racl�es paternelles, Clay Blaisdell, dit Blaze, encha�ne les casses miteux. Son meilleur pote, George, lui, est un vrai pro, avec un plan d'enfer pour gagner des millions de dollars: kidnapper le dernier-n� des Gerard, riches � crever. Le seul probl�me, c'est qu'avant de commettre le � crime du si�cle �, George s'est fait descendre. Mort. Enfin, peut-�tre... Ce suspense men� en quatri�me vitesse, vrai roman noir, rappelle le meilleur de Jim Thompson ou de James Cain. Un in�dit de King / Bachman miraculeusement retrouv�.

Un roman noir de la plus belle eau, dans la lign�e de James T. Farrell ou du Steinbeck des Souris et des hommes. Puissant, �mouvant... Booklist.

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Review:

There was a time when admirers of Stephen King would seek out every scrap from the Master’s work bench, and it was a cause for celebration when it was discovered that the writer Richard Bachman was, in fact, a pseudonym for King. There were more King novels available than we had all thought! And it was even more an occasion for celebration when it was discovered just how good these Bachman books were.

With Blaze (issued here with a new foreword by Stephen King), we have one of the most adroit entries in the series. King had written the book in 1973 and it had subsequently vanished from his personal radar as he busied himself writing Carrie and Salem's Lot, two of the books that were to both make his fortune and establish him as the greatest modern master of horror fiction. When Blaze turned up among his papers in the library of the University of Maine, he looked at it again, and (fortunately for King aficionados) sanctioned its publication.

Clay Blaisdell is a hulking 6' 7'' petty criminal who encounters another lowlife with large ambitions: George Rackley has a fund of criminal schemes, but his Big Idea is to kidnap the children of rich parents and hold them to ransom. What ensues is shot through with the masterly orchestration of tension that is Stephen King's m�tier. If there are some undigested influences here (the two protagonists -- one massive and powerful, the other the brains of the duo -- owe more than a little to George and Lenny in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men), the personality that comes through (leaving aside the Richard Bachman nom-de-plume) is Stephen King, and followers of his work will need no persuasion to pick up this one. --Barry Forshaw

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