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'King has the ability to capture the reader's imagination from the first page of each tale with his clever and terrifying storytelling. It is impossible to put the book down'
(Sun )'Spooky, mysterious, gripping and satisfyingly scary'
(Sunday Telegraph )'His most accomplished work: 13 beautifully turned tales, no two of which are alike'
(Daily Express )'Nobody does it better than the master'
(Time Out ) --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .Présentation de l'éditeur
What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are thirteen riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for.
Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: ‘workmen’ who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife’s affair.
There are tales of obsession and fights for power: The Gingerbread Girl runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into A Very Tight Place and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a Rest Stop needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he’s to intervene.
Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people’s worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town – and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual – until it happens. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .
Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: ‘workmen’ who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife’s affair.
There are tales of obsession and fights for power: The Gingerbread Girl runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into A Very Tight Place and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a Rest Stop needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he’s to intervene.
Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people’s worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town – and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual – until it happens. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .
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Not as good as I had hoped,
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A few years ago I had read Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales, a collection of 14 short stories by Stephen King. For years I had been a big fan of Stephen King's novels, and I had always enjoyed short stories as a genre. Therefore I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Stephen King is not only able to write book-long narrative thrillers, but was equally if not more at home with the constraints that short story imposes on the writer. I saw that King's writing style is in its own right a very compelling tool that he deftly uses to keep readers interested in the story, even there is nothing supernatural or out of this world in the narrative. This sentiment had led me to look forward to The Best American Short Stories 2007 collection for which Stephen King was a guest editor. However, this collection of short stories proved to be a complete disaster - the stories were some of the most boring and unimaginative that I have ever read in the Best American series of books. It had shaken my impression of King as someone who can truly appreciate a well-crafted short story, but I still believed that it bore no relation to his own writing ability. So when I came across this new collection of his own short stories, I was very eager to give it a try. The first red flag came in the introduction. It turns out that King was inspired to write this collection by his experience as the editor of "Best American Short Stories" collection. As I read through the stories my misgivings got confirmed. The stories, by and large, turned out to be the worst of the two worlds: they had all of the discursive, aimless rambling of some of King's longer works, and none of the shocking potency of immediacy of a short story. The characters find themselves in a variety of supernatural and otherwise strange situations, but for the most part we are not sympathetic enough to their plight to care what happens to them in the end. There were a couple of stories that I genuinely enjoyed, but overall this has been a rather disappointing reading experience. I still believe that Stephen King is a great writer of suspenseful stories that reflect on some of our deepest fears and anxieties, but this collection of short stories doesn't do justice to his talent.
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Superbe !,
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Excellent ouvrage du maître de la nouvelle Stephen King. Je ne parle pas anglais couramment et pourtant, je n'ai eu aucune difficulté à lire le livre. Humain, profond, passionnant.
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J'avais ce livre depusi quelques mois de côtés mais j'attendais avant de lire , je ne sais pas pourquoi j'ai attendu ! Cela commence doucement pour moi , j'ai aimé sans plus les premières histoires , un peu trop ... 'Optimistes' à mon goût , je préfère un King pessimiste , sombre . L'histoire 'N.' m'a bien fichu les chocottes ! Je ne crois pas que quelqu'un atteint de TOC lisant cette nouvelle lui dise merci ! Pauvre N. , et j'ai aimé le clin d'oeil à la fin à Julia Shumway que l'on peut retrouver dans son roman 'Under The Dome' , et un autre à 'It' avec la mention de la ville Derry . Je suis toujours contente de retrouver le Maine .J'ai aimé aussi 'A Cat From Hell' , une vieille nouvelle mais sympathique , 'Graduation Afternoon' , courte mais qui laisse songeur (songeuse) et puis 'A Very Tight Place' , oh la la la ! On sent qu'il a pris un malin plaisir à nous dégoûter ! Et puis c'est toujours avec plaisir que j'ai lu les notes oà la fin de livre . M.King est un conteur hors pair et c'est toujours passionnant de l'entendre , de le lire , nous expliquer pourquoi , où il a pioché ses idées . Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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