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Gwendy's Final Task

Autor Stephen King, Richard Chizmar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 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-13: 9781982191559
ISBN-10: 1982191554
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 207 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Gallery Books

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

The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious 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 eight colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box reentered Gwendy’s life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation the box represented. Now, malignant forces seek to possess the button box, and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can one hide something from such powerful entities?

In Gwendy’s Final Task, master storytellers 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 is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He 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 is the author of New York Times bestselling novels Chasing the Boogeyman, Becoming the Boogeyman, Memorials, and Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting (cowritten with son, W.H. Chizmar), and coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Box, the novel Gwendy’s Final Task, and the solo novella Gwendy’s Magic Feather. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, most recently, the bestselling anthology, The End of The World as We Know It: New Stories of Stephen King’s The Stand. He is the founder and publisher of the specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense, Cemetery Dance. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA’s Board of Trustees award. Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, speaker, panelist, and guest of honor. Follow him on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky: @RichardChizmar, or visit his website at RichardChizmar.com.

Recenzii

Man, I love this story! The whole thing just races and feels so right-sized and so scarily and sadly relevant. Loved the characters . . . and the sense of one little girl's connection to the whole world through this weird device. It all just sang
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