Misery sees Stephen King at the height of his writing powers in a novel that explores the psyche of an author suffering extreme torment. Fate has given Annie a chance to bring her favourite character back to life, and Paul won’t be leaving Annie’s remote farmstead alive until he complies. Annie Wilkes might be Paul’s ‘number one fan’, but she is incensed that he has killed the heroine Misery Chastain in his latest novel.
As the intense pain ebbs and flows, rare moments of lucidity lead to the chilling realisation that his rescuer is also his jailer. One million first printing $400,000 ad/promo BOMC main selection.Two weeks after a near-fatal car crash, author Paul Sheldon regains consciousness in a stranger’s guest room, his legs shattered and useless. The best parts of this novel demand that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology. Sheldon is a revealingly autobiographical figure Annie is not merely a monster but is subtly and often touchingly portrayed, allowing hostage and keeper a believable, if twisted, relationship.
Studded among the frightening moments are sparkling reflections on the writer and his audience, on the difficulties, joys and responsibilities of being a storyteller, on the nature of the muse, on the differences between ``serious'' and ``popular'' writing.
Keeping the paralyzed Sheldon prisoner, she forces him to revive the character in a continuation of the series, and she reads each page as it comes out of the typewriter there is a joyously Dickensian novel within a novel here, and it appears in faded typescript. Sheldon has killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery series and Annie, who has a murderous past, wants her back. Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that salvation can be worse than death. King's new novel, about a writer held hostage by his self-proclaimed ""number-one fan,'' is unadulteratedly terrifying.
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