Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King's first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraor...
Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King's first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife's discovery of her milquetoast husband's sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book's most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable.
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal ...
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
"There is another man inside every man, a stranger..." "If you like it, it likes you... " 这两句话在合上书后,还清晰地回荡在我脑海里,并让我想到四个字 “跗骨之蛆”……我要描述的不是反胃或者恶心,而是一种让人发自内心颤抖又反复挥之不去的,一种很黑暗带有很大...
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斯蒂芬·金(Stephen King)于二零零零年出版了《写作这回事 : 创作生涯回忆录 》(On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft),这本书半是自传,半是对于自我职业的简洁回顾。他很清楚那些认为他不能写作的人的反应,用他的话来说,这些人认为他就象是一个镇上的妓女,试图教导良家妇...
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This certainly is the kind of book readers charging through the pages and gobbling up as fast as one could, as King described what he did with 1984 in the afterword. The book consists of four stories: 1922, Big Driver, Fair Extension and A Good Marriage. Th...
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0 有用 REDRUM 2014-11-25 14:32:02
非常不错,除了big driver稍微挫点,总体都非常好看。尤其是1922
1 有用 三川大地主 2015-08-05 23:34:05
my king was back on top form with this book
0 有用 阿饼 2023-01-19 01:49:15 英国
也是去年读的 没读几篇觉得有点惊悚
0 有用 neverbird 2019-04-17 10:52:20
斯蒂芬金讲起故事真是让人欲罢不能。
0 有用 倏逝波 2014-02-07 17:21:27
挑了两篇短的看了看。这个人有意识地操纵你的情绪(有包邮许多斜体字和回车哦)。大家都喜欢这种我觉得挺bullhead的“恶”么?很无趣啊~