Gwendy's Final Task
Autor Richard Chizmar, Stephen Kingen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 feb 2022
Suntem de părere că adevărata groază nu rezidă în entitățile supranaturale, ci în fragilitatea minții umane care poartă povara salvării lumii. În acest ultim act al trilogiei, miza este dublă: Gwendy Peterson nu trebuie doar să protejeze omenirea de forțele care râvnesc la cutia cu butoane, ci și să-și păstreze propria identitate în fața degradării necruțătoare cauzate de Alzheimer. Atmosfera este una de neliniște profundă, unde timpul devine cel mai mare inamic, iar spațiul claustrofob al unei stații spațiale amplifică sentimentul de izolare și pericol iminent. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Pete Nunweiler în The Ghost Within Us, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Nunweiler explorează entități care reduc la tăcere spiritele, Stephen King și Richard Chizmar folosesc tăcerea memoriei care se șterge pentru a spori tensiunea psihologică. Ritmul este unul alert, de tip cursă contra cronometru, dar este punctat de momente de o melancolie sfâșietoare. Față de abordările din The Stand, unde răul era o prezență fizică ce mărșăluia pe șosele, aici amenințarea este mai abstractă și mai perfidă, infiltrându-se în conștiința personajului. Credem că această încheiere reușește să lege firele narative din primele volume, oferind o perspectivă matură asupra responsabilității și a sacrificiului final.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1399702343
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 145 x 220 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază horror-ul psihologic cu mize cosmice. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii universului Stephen King, oferind o concluzie emoționantă pentru Gwendy Peterson. Cititorul va câștiga o poveste despre curaj în fața uitării, totul într-un cadru ce îmbină realismul politic cu suspansul sci-fi.
Despre autor
Stephen King este unul dintre cei mai prolifici autori americani de literatură horror și fantastică, cu peste 63 de romane publicate și numeroase distincții, inclusiv National Medal of Arts. Richard Chizmar este un autor premiat de World Fantasy și International Horror Guild, cunoscut pentru abilitatea de a construi suspans și empatie. Cei doi au colaborat pentru a aduce la viață Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy, îmbinând stilul inconfundabil al lui King cu viziunea narativă precisă a lui Chizmar asupra orășelului Castle Rock.
Descriere
King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy.
When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction.
Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster.
With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?
Gwendy's Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply moving novel in which 'horror giants' (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.
Notă biografică
STEPHEN KING
Stephen King is the author of more than seventy books, all of them bestsellers. He is the co-author (with Richard Chizmar) of the New York Times bestseller Gwendy's Button Box. Among his celebrated classics are It, Misery and The Shining. Recent bestsellers include The Outsider and Billy Summers, both No. 1 on The Sunday Times bestseller list. Many of his titles, including Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, are the basis for major motion pictures and TV events.
King is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
RICHARD CHIZMAR
Richard Chizmar is the co-author of Gwendy's Button Box and the author of Gwendy's Magic Feather, in which he 'carries the tale forward into Gwendy's future with sympathy and grace' (Washington Post). Recent books include the highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chasing the Boogeyman ('totally compelling and immensely poignant' C. J. Tudor), and Widow's Point, a chilling tale about a haunted lighthouse written with his son, Billy Chizmar, which was recently made into a feature film.
Chizmar's short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustee's award.
Recenzii
A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine
[An] appealing chiller . . . The charming protagonist and thrill of temptation will enthrall fans and new readers alike
This charming, whimsical tale about a woman with an enchanted toy deepens into a story of pain and threat, destiny and desire
Has genuine charm
Tense and yet simultaneously moving
A well-written, seamless read (you can't see the join between the chapters King wrote and Chizmar wrote), that racks up the tension and dread, as well as the horror and the sense of wonder in this modern fairy story. The ending will bring a smile to the face, and possibly a tear to the eye. A fine end to the series and Gwendy's journey
Stephen King and Richard Chizmar's Gwendy saga comes to a satisfying conclusion . . . Unexpectedly moving. Like its predecessors, Gwendy's Final Task is both a seamless act of collaboration and a deeply felt reflection on the perilous state of our fractured modern world