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Desperation by Stephen King (1996, Hardcover) 
Desperation by Stephen King (1996, Hardcover)

 
Desperation by Stephen King (1996, Hardcover)

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Viking Press
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0670868361
ISBN-13: 9780670868360
Product ID: EPID363866
Description: Somewhere along Route 50 in the Nevada desert exists a dead-end town called Desperation. Those who cross the town line embark on a never-ending journey of desperation, lunacy, and terror, as they find true desperation in a town that no o...
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Synopsis
Somewhere along Route 50 in the Nevada desert exists a dead-end town called Desperation. Those who cross the town line embark on a never-ending journey of desperation, lunacy, and terror, as they find true desperation in a town that no one leaves. The novel is a companion piece to "The Regulators", which is written under the name Richard Bachman and which involves many of the same characters in the same sort of setting, but exhibits an entirely different flavor than "Desperation". The books can be read separately, in either order, and each can stand on its own as a fully-realized work. But they are interdependent works of fiction as well.

Details
Publication Date:1996-09-01

Size
Length:690 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.8 in
Thickness:2.2 in
Weight:40.0 oz

Publisher's Note
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.

Industry Reviews
"Zooming along is Stephen King's massive new tour bus, "Desperation" We feel the mild private tingle of a passenger who senses, after the first swoosh of brakes, pillowy turn, and resumed deep-thrum acceleration, that he is in great hands."
New Yorker - Roger Angell (09/30/1996)

"...[I]f reading 'The Regulators feels like watching a taut Rod Serling script directed by Sam Peckinpah, reading 'Desperation' feels like screening a rambling spaghetti western directed by Sam Raimi....For all its mysteries, monsters and gore, 'Desperation' builds to a climax reminiscent of King's epic 'The Stand', a crisis of faith in which characters make terrible choices with consequences far beyond mere survival."
Washington Post Book World - Michael A. Morrison (09/22/1996)

"Knockout classic horror: King's most carefully crafted, well-groomed pages ever.
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      Huge but Entertaining
    Review created: 12/01/06(updated 01/25/07)
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    bayvendor ( 3605)
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    6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

    I picked this up almost as an afterthought at a discount store simply because the price was too good to pass up. I normally read a book first before purchasing (I have to set some limits on the buying otherwise the books would take over), but I lucked out with this gem.
    Stephen King knows how to tell a great story. He gets to the heart of the reader by describing elements in a story than anyone can relate to. His magic is in the interpersonal relationships of everyone in each story, and an almost exhaustive attention to detail that is never boring but engaging. Trying to explain what this book is about would make it sound rather silly, (a group of people in a mining town are kidnapped by an alien being that "uses" their bodies to destroy the town and everyone in it). King knows people and writes about people. The story shows how this setting transforms the people involved, and how they work together to try to defeat this evil being. This is another great King read, long and rambling but utterly engaging and compulsive, and worthy of a spot in any King library.


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      Master of Horror Truly A King of His Genre
    Review created: 01/19/06
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    7 of 10 people found this review helpful.

    A story about a small town called Desperation where evil and good wage a war that only King can tell so graphically.

    It's a story of a small mining town and the discovery of an old pit where many chinese miners lost their lives due to the tak and can taks found in the ground during a dig. Tak and Can Tak being Gods of the underworld. As it possesses the strongest bodies it can find, it doesn't realise that there is a greater God then it.

    Truly King at this best. Will have you reading it until well past your adult bedtime. And staying up even later with the chills.


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