Desperation - Hardcover

Stephen King; King, Stephen; Maiz, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1880418363 ISBN 13: 9781880418369

Publisher: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., 1996

Synopsis

Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces force them to fight for their lives. Read by Kathy Bates.

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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."

About the Author:

Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1880418363
• ISBN 13: 9781880418369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 525
• Illustrator: Don Maitz