Anglais Full dark, no stars (édition en anglais)

À propos

'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'.

Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.


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  • Auteur(s)

    Stephen King

  • Éditeur

    Hodder And Stoughton Ltd

  • Distributeur

    Sobodi-Charpentier

  • EAN

    9781444712575

  • Disponibilité

    Épuisé

  • Nombre de pages

    453 Pages

  • Longueur

    17.8 cm

  • Largeur

    11.1 cm

  • Poids

    240 g

  • Support principal

    Poche

Stephen King

Né en 1947 à Portland (Maine), Stephen King a connu son premier succès en 1974 avec Carrie. En une quarantaine d'années, on lui doit plus de cinquante romans et autant de nouvelles, certains sous le pseudonyme de Richard Bachman. Il a reçu de nombreuses distinctions littéraires, dont le prestigieux Grand Master Award des Mystery Writers of America pour l'ensemble de sa carrière en 2007. Son œuvre est largement adaptée au cinéma et à la télévision.

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