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If It Bleeds de Stephen King

If It Bleeds

Autor Stephen King
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 apr 2020

Proza lui Stephen King în acest volum este tăioasă, economică, lipsită de orice ornament inutil. Simțim imediat acea precizie chirurgicală cu care autorul disecă banalul pentru a scoate la iveală groaza. Apreciem modul în care If It Bleeds demonstrează că nuvela este, poate, formatul în care King strălucește cel mai tare. Stilul are ceva din atmosfera sumbră și fără scăpare din Full Dark, No Stars, fără să fie o imitație — aici, teroarea este adesea dublată de o melancolie profundă. Subliniem revenirea lui Holly Gibney, personaj central și în Holly sau Mr. Mercedes, care trebuie să înfrunte singură o entitate ce se hrănește cu suferință. Considerăm că volumul echilibrează perfect suspansul pur cu explorarea psihologică. În „Mr. Harrigan's Phone”, un iPhone devine punte către lumea de dincolo. În „Rat”, ambiția unui scriitor se transformă în pact faustian. „The Life of Chuck” inversează cronologia unei existențe pentru a celebra mulțimile pe care le purtăm în noi. Tensiunea nu scade nicio secundă. Ritmul este alert, capitolele te obligă să mergi mai departe, chiar și atunci când intuiești că finalul nu va fi unul liniștitor. King nu doar povestește; el capturează fragilitatea realității în fața răului imprevizibil.

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ISBN-13: 9781529391534
ISBN-10: 1529391539
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 162 x 238 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru fanii care au urmărit evoluția personajului Holly Gibney, acest volum este esențial, oferind piesa lipsă dintre The Outsider și romanele ulterioare. Cititorul câștigă patru experiențe narative distincte: de la thriller detectivistic la horror supranatural și dramă existențială. Este demonstrația supremă că un maestru al genului poate provoca fiori reci folosind doar un telefon mobil sau o simplă dorință de succes literar.

Despre autor

Stephen King este figura centrală a literaturii horror și suspense contemporane, cu peste 350 de milioane de exemplare vândute la nivel mondial. Distins cu Medalia pentru Contribuție Distinsă la Literele Americane, King a transformat genul thriller prin profunzime psihologică și o capacitate unică de a găsi macabrul în cotidian. Autor a peste 60 de romane și sute de povestiri, el a creat personaje iconice precum Holly Gibney, care traversează mai multe dintre operele sale, demonstrând coeziunea universului său literar.

Descriere

A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestseller THE OUTSIDER.

News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin.

Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realises there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins 'If It Bleeds', a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestselling THE OUTSIDER featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case - and also the riveting title story in Stephen King's brilliant new collection.

Dancing alongside are three more wonderful long stories from this 'formidably versatile author' (The Sunday Times) - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat'. All four display the richness of King's storytelling with grace, humour, horror and breathtaking suspense. A fascinating Author's Note gives us a wonderful insight into the origin of each story and the writer's unparalleled imagination

 

Notă biografică

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His crime thrillers featuring Holly Gibney include Mr Mercedes, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, and The Outsider, both of which were adapted into successful TV series, as well as Finders Keepers, End of Watch and the title story from If It Bleeds.

Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, 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 Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Recenzii

Full of vividly drawn characters and unsettling themes, If It Bleeds is another tour de force by a master storyteller
Such glimpses into King's own mind are riveting and satisfyingly terrifying. Read the book for this
The horror writer is at his familiar best with four suspenseful and sometimes surprisingly tender novellas... If It Bleeds brings together four new stories, all offering vintage King themes with their own particular twist... King, as always, is right on the money
The titular novella is...an impeccably judged whodunnit...the other three [are] readable, engaging studies of male lives at different stages
You may wonder if the great yarn spinner of the supernatural possesses psychic abilities of his own because this collection of short stories is so timely... Spine-chillingly brilliant
You'll fly through IF IT BLEEDS
You are drawn in immediately and kept guessing until the end
Four wonderful stories
full of vividly drawn characters ... another tour de force by a master storyteller
His achievements... are dazzling in scope... immensely enjoyable
The straightforward cadences of King's voice, paired with his signature sit-down-and-let-me-tell-you-a-story style, were immediately soothing. And the stories he was telling - about the seductions and corruptions of technology, the extremes of beauty and depravity in even the most ordinary life, the workings of a universe we can never entirely understand - were somehow exactly what I wanted to read right now... As sirens blare outside my Brooklyn window and the headlines grow more apocalyptic by the day, I might start working my way through King's backlist. He's good company in the dark
Four new, exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm his mastery of the form... stories that cover a surprising amount of emotional territory but can still be read in a sitting... King's affection for [Holly] is evident on every page... deeply empathetic and compulsively readable
The iconic author will keep you up late at night engrossed in four tales about our dreams and our frailties
King is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest - and most inventive - storytellers of our time and The Institute is a dazzling achievement
A genuinely intriguing mystery, one that uses many of the tropes of both so-called "grip-lit" thrillers and more conventional forensics-driven crime fiction... The Outsider gives King fans exactly what they want
One of the greatest storytellers of the past century...If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one