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Shipping is normally same day from the UK. We can send you photos of this book with a detailed description. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE ORDERING THIS BOOK TO CONFIRM BOOK CONDITION AND EDITION (most of our books are 1st editions). Book & Dust Jacket: Small area where sticker has been removed lighter than the rest. This novel isn't major King, but it's nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment.' - Publisher's Weekly. While the book's relative brevity and simplicity does lend comparison to earlier King, and King has relied on a nasty car before (Christine), the author's stylistic maturity manifests in his sophisticated handling of the round robin of narrators (both first and third-person), the sharp portrayal of police ways and mores and the novel's compelling subthemes (loyalty, generational bondings) and primary theme: that life is filled with Buick 8s, phenomena that blindside us and that we can never understand. Moreover, the 'car' is dangerous: the day it appears, a state trooper disappears, and experiments over the years with cockroaches, etc., indicate that just as the car can spew things out, it will ingest them. what? Another dimension? Another galaxy? The troopers never find out, despite their amateurish scientific investigations of it and of the weird beings that occasionally emerge from the vehicle's trunk: freaky fish, creepy flowers and more.

The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues for the car isn't exactly a car it may be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and. In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. That's quick work, and it's reflected in the book's simplicity of plot and theme unlike King's chewy last novel, Dreamcatcher, this one goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean, much like Cujo, say, or Gerald's Game. The first draft took two months to write. 'King, we learn in an author's note, hashed out the plot of this gripper while driving from western Pennsylvania to New York. A collectible copy for the Stephen King fan. Blue quarter-cloth overwhite paper boards. Complete number line and unclipped dust jacket showing price of $28.00. An as new/fine first editon in an as new dust jacket.

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