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Pin, the transparent anatomical model of a man created by their doctor father, becomes a playmate to Leon and Ursula until the two children become teenagers, their parents die, and forces outside the family threaten to destroy the threesome
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About the Author
Andrew Neiderman is the author of numerous novels of suspense and terror, including Deficiency, The Baby Squad, Under Abduction, Dead Time, Curse, In Double Jeopardy, The Dark, Surrogate Child, and The Devil’s Advocate—which was made into a major motion picture starring Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, and Charlize Theron. He lives in Palm Springs, California, with his wife, Diane. Visit his website at Neiderman.com.
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*Starred Review* Without the 1998 cult horror film by the same name, this 1981 psychodrama may have slid off the map entirely—a crime, considering just how terrifically upsetting it is. Leon and Ursula are teenagers living alone in a mansion after the death of their wealthy parents. Well, not entirely alone. They are joined by Pin, the full-sized, translucent medical dummy with which their physician father amused patients by throwing his voice. (This is the point where, if you’re the nervous type, you slowly back away from the book.) As children, Leon and Ursula treated Pin as a confidant, though now that they’re older, it’s only Leon who holds entire two-sided conversations with him while Ursula plays along. It’s a bizarre stasis indeed, but everybody is happy—until the day Ursula brings home a boyfriend who has a damning diagnosis of Leon: “He’s as loony as can be.” With the family trio threatened, Leon and Pin hatch a plan—it involves hypodermic needles—to rid themselves of this new bother. Yes, it’s a heck of a plot synopsis, though it can’t convey Leon’s calm, aristocratic first-person narration, nor does it touch upon the queasy, incestual relationship that turns the siblings’ every interaction into the kind of barely hidden perversity V. C. Andrews would had loved. (Neiderman, in fact, became Andrews’ ghostwriter after her death.) If you’re a fan of clever psychos or medical horrors—or if you’re just an all-around sicko—I’d like to introduce you to your new best friend. --Daniel Kraus
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- PublisherPocket Books
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0671415018
- ISBN 13 9780671415013
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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Seller: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.35. Seller Inventory # G0671415018I3N00
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PIN - Brother, Sister, Madness, Sin, Now the Terror Will Begin.
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Pocket Books Inc., Canada, 1981
ISBN 10: 0671415018
ISBN 13: 9780671415013
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Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. DIE-CUT Bullet Hole in Cover; (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 264 pages "Mother was driven by a psychotic compulsion to clean - constantly - everything in sight. Father was consumed by his medical practice and an analytical approach to life.Pin, who answered all the children's questions in a voice not unlike the doctor's. Then there was the accident, both parents are dead." >> Cover creasing; ; reading creasing to paper spine;Cover scuffing;; black felt marker to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 19618-4
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