MISERY (REISSUE)
Paul Sheldon has done it. He's finally killed off Misery Chastain, the period-romance heroine who made him famous and, frankly, bored him senseless. The relief is enormous. The freedom, intoxicating. Then his car leaves the road in a snowstorm, and everything changes. He wakes up in a bed that isn't his, with legs that are shattered, in a house that feels wrong in ways he can't quite name. His rescuer is Annie Wilkes, a former nurse with a well-stocked medicine cabinet and an unsettling familiarity with his work. She's read every Misery novel. Every single one. And she is not pleased about how the latest instalment ends. What follows is a tightly wound psychological battle between a writer who has every reason to fear his reader, and a woman whose devotion has curdled into something far more dangerous than obsession. King keeps the tension coiled throughout, never releasing it fully until the very last moment. The claustrophobia is almost physical. Two characters, one remote location, and the slow, horrible realisation that survival depends entirely on Paul's ability to write. It's a thriller, yes, but it's also a sharp, quietly uncomfortable meditation on creativity under duress, and the strange relationship between artists and the audiences who feel they own them. Gripping from the first page to the last.
- Author: Stephen King
- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-1473662070
- Pages: 384 pages