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Misery
by Stephen King
Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances,
wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in
Colorado. He wakes up to unspeakable pain (a dislocated pelvis, a
crushed knee, two shattered legs) and to a bizarre greeting from the
woman who has saved his life: "I'm you number one fan!"
Annie Wilkes is a huge ex-nurse, handy with controlled substances and
other instruments of abuse, including an axe and a blowtorch. A
dangerous psychotic with a Romper Room sense of
good and bad, fair and unfair, Annie Wilkes may be Stephen King's most
terrifying creation. It's not fair, for example, that her favorite
character in the world, Misery Chastain, has been killed by her
creator, as Annie discovers when Paul's latest novel comes out in
paperback. And it's not good that her favorite writer has been a
Don't-Bee and written a different kind of novel, a nasty
novel, the novel he has always wanted to write, the only copy of which
now lies in Annie's angry hands.
Because she wants Paul Sheldon to be a Do-Bee, she buys him a
typewriter and a ream of paper and tells him to bring Misery back to
life. Wheelchair-bound, drug-dependent, locked in his room, Paul
doesn't have much choice. He's an entertainer held captive by his
audience. A writer in serious trouble. But writers have weapons too...
Hardbound in very good condition.
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