Cover is very worn and binding nice and square. Pages from 1-200 are rippled form water damaged and stained. The page edges are soiled and stained from water damage. There is tape on the front and back cover inside and out near the spine. The pages are tanned throughout the book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: It (A Signet Book)
Publisher: Signet
Publication Date: 1987
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0451149513
ISBN 13: 9780451149510
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fair

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With over 1.3 million hardcover copies in print, It boasts over five months on all nationwide bestseller lists.

Review

Stephen King's idea for It came from a favorite childhood image: the entire cast of the Bugs Bunny Show coming on at the beginning. He thought of bringing on all the monsters, one last time: Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, the Werewolf, the Crawling Eye, Rodan, It Came from Outer Space.

It is about a group of adults who were once troubled children in the late '50s--"The Losers." One of them is a best selling horror writer much like Stephen King (or his friend and collaborator Peter Straub). In order to defeat the protean "It" that threatens their hometown, they have to go back- -not only to the town itself, but deep into their childhood memories, to regain the talent for magic they once had. King says It is for "the buried child in us, but I'm writing for the grown-up, too. I want grown-ups to look at the child long enough to be able to give him up."

This huge, baggy beast of a novel is a favorite of Stephen King fans--second in popularity only to The Stand. Perhaps longtime fans develop mental filters for King's sloppy storytelling to tune out the repetitions and silliness. King is like the pointillist painter Seurat: if you stand too close to the little dots, the picture falls apart, and it looks meaningless. That's why he makes the storyscape so big--to take you up to that macro-level where you like the book in spite of its flaws. --Fiona Webster

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