The Stand: The Complete & Uncu
King, Stephen
ISBN 10: 0451179285 ISBN 13: 9780451179289
Published by Signet, 1994
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King's phenomenally selling masterpiece The Stand is now coming as a blockbuster ABC-TV miniseries. The long-awaited television event finally airs this May. The book, featuring tie-in advertising cover art, is a classic study of the battle between good and evil in a future world, where virtually the entire planet's population has been wiped out by a deadly flu virus--accidentally unleashed by a Defense Department accident.
Review: In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Stand: The Complete & Uncu
Publisher: Signet
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good