The Ninth Configuration

BLATTY, William Peter

ISBN 10: 0060103590 / ISBN 13: 9780060103590

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978

About this Item

First edition (so stated). Octavo. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, fresh copy. Signed and inscribed by Blatty in black ink on the half title page: "For Irv Glaser - With my heartfelt thanks for the recognition The Foreing Press had given my film. It has meant so much to me. Always. William Peter Blatty, January 1981." Filmed in 1980 by Lorimar, written, directed and produced by Blatty, starring Stacy Keach.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ninth Configuration
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060103590
• ISBN 13: 9780060103590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERATURE

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Synopsis

Hidden away in a brooding Gothic manor in the deep woods is Center Eighteen, a secret military "rest camp" currently housing twenty-seven inmates, all officers who have succumbed to a sudden outbreak of mental illness. Have the men truly lost their minds, are they only pretending to be insane to avoid combat, or is some more sinister conspiracy at work?

Desperate for answers, the Pentagon has placed a brilliant Marine psychiatrist in charge of the base and its deranged occupants. A man of deep faith and compassion, Colonel Kane hopes to uncover the root of the men's bizarre obsessions. But as Center Eighteen descends into chaos, Kane finds the greatest challenge may be his own buried demons. . . .

The basis of an acclaimed 1980 film (also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane), William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration is a thought-provoking, blackly comic journey into the heart of madness―and the outer limits of belief.