Blaze by Stephen King
The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time. Stephen King's "dark half" may have saved the best for last.A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine's Fogler Library ("How did this get here?!"), and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published.
Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. -- of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs -- and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own.
He becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature. This is a crime story of surprising strength and sadness, with a suspenseful current sustained by the classic workings of fate and character -- as taut and riveting as Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
Stephen King was actually two guys between 1966 and 1973. Richard Bachman authored a series of books that were not published until the early 1980s and then compiled as The Bachman Books, while Stephen King penned (and sold) horror stories to magazines like Cavalier and Adam. Bachman died of pseudonym cancer in 1985, not long after another of his novels, Thinner, was credited to Stephen King; yet, a sixth Bachman novel, The Regulators, appeared in 1995, and was released concurrently with Stephen King's Desperation, to which it bore a strange resemblance. The last novel written during Bachman's early time was Blaze, which was both harsh and tender. It's part of his legacy. The Haven Foundation, which assists independent artists, will receive a portion of King's revenues from Blaze.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781416554844 |
| ISBN 10 | 141655484X |
| Title | Blaze |
| Author | Stephen King |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2007-06-12 |
| Number of pages | 285 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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