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ISBN: 9781982105594

Content: " Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's timeless novella The Body—,riginally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me —,ow available for the first time as a stand-alone publication. It's 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn't offer much in the way of a future. A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King's The Body is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story."

Content: Rezension(1): "Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Outsider , Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, the Bill Hodges trilogy End of Watch , Finders Keepers , and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and now an AT&, Audience Network original television series), Doctor Sleep , and Under the Dome . His novel 11/22/63 —, Hulu original television series event—,as 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 and It are the basis for major motion pictures. He is the recipient of 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." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 22, 2003 At once intriguing and preposterous, Kureishi', slender new novel starts off promisingly. Adam, the narrator, a famous writer in his 60s, is approached at a party by an attractive and mysterious young man named Ralph. Ralph claims to be an old man whose brain has been transplanted into a new, younger body. The bodies come from dead young people, whose deaths seem eerily convenient for those who want to become ",ewbodies.",At first Adam does not believe the story. But Ralph', entreaties are so convincing—,nd appealing—,hat Adam agrees to temporarily transplant his brain into the body of a man of 25. After all, ",ho hasn', asked: Why can', I be someone else? Who, really, wouldn', want to live again, given the chance?",The science behind the idea is vague and silly, but Kureishi probably never meant it to be convincing. Instead, he sends Adam on various soul-searching journeys in his new body, which was ",tocky and as classically handsome as any sculpture in the British Museum.",Adam waxes on his life in a new body, has loads of hot sex and eventually settles at a spiritual retreat on a Greek island. But soon he yearns to return to his old body—,arts and all—,nd to his wife and former life in London. But menacing forces conspire against him, and he soon realizes the grave consequences of his decision. The novel is too short and sketchy to fully explore the ramifications of its premise. Kureishi, through Adam, has many things to say about life in an alien body, but these musings never really cohere. And the creepiness of the setup, which could have made for spine-tingling reading, never amounts to much. Still, the writing, as in Kureishi', other novels ( Intimacy , The Buddha of Suburbia ), is crisp and precise, and the book should satisfy his fans until something more substantial comes along."

Language: English

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