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Paperback. Pages: 112 Language: English Publisher: Pearson A story by Stephen King the master of horror Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkess favourite writer She loves all his books about Misery Chastain When Annie finds Paul after a car accident. she takes him... home to look after him. The Annie discovers that Paul wants to kill Misery and to write different kinds of book. She is determined to stop him. and Paul becomes her prisoner.
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In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She.
He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.
Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. --Fiona Webster
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1405876654
- ISBN 13 9781405876650
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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