Four past midnight
"The Langoliers" : A red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston occupies a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Viking,
1990.
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| Summary: | "The Langoliers" : A red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston occupies a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. "Secret Window, Secret Garden" : Writer Mort Rainey is accused of plagiarism by a mysterious man named John Shooter. Shooter's come to settle up. "The Library Policeman" : Sam Peebles borrows two books from the library late one night, and the librarian warns him not to be late returning them. What Sam doesn't know is that she was a child murderer who committed suicide in 1960, and when he loses the books, her library policeman pays him a visit. "The Sun Dog" : Kevin Delevan gets exactly what he wanted for his 15th birthday, a Polaroid "Sun 660" camera, but every picture he takes shows a salivating "hell hound" getting closer and closer. |
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| Item Description: | Wisconsin author. "Illustrations by Lars Hokanson"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 763 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781501143496 1501143492 9780451170385 0451170385 9780451213594 0451213599 9780670835386 0670835382 |
| Author Notes: | King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. She removed the first few chapters from the garbage after King had thrown them away in frustration. Three months later, he received a $2,500 advance from Doubleday Publishing for the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. That book, Carrie, was about a girl with telekinetic powers who is tormented by bullies at school. She uses her power, in turn, to torment and eventually destroy her mean-spirited classmates. When United Artists released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie, went on to sell more than two-and-a-half million copies. Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It. He is number 2 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 100 million copies of his works in print. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages, and he writes new books at a rate of about one per year. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2012 his title, The Wind Through the Keyhole made The New York Times Best Seller List. King's title's Mr. Mercedes and Revival made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2015 for Best Novel with Mr. Mercedes. King's title Finders Keepers made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. Sleeping Beauties is his latest 2017 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) |
