Blaze (Ldp Litt.Fantas)

King, Stephen; Bachman, Richard

ISBN 10: 2253022632 ISBN 13: 9782253022633

Verlag: LGF/Le Livre de Poche, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

346pages. poche. broché. There was a time when admirers of Stephen King would seek out every scrap from the Master?s work bench, and it was a cause for celebration when it was discovered that the writer Richard Bachman was, in fact, a pseudonym for King. There were more King novels available than we had all thought! And it was even more an occasion for celebration when it was discovered just how good these Bachman books were. With Blaze (issued here with a new foreword by Stephen King), we have one of the most adroit entries in the series. King had written the book in 1973 and it had subsequently vanished from his personal radar as he busied himself writing Carrie and Salem's Lot , two of the books that were to both make his fortune and establish him as the greatest modern master of horror fiction. When Blaze turned up among his papers in the library of the University of Maine, he looked at it again, and (fortunately for King aficionados) sanctioned its publication. Clay Blaisdell is a hulking 6' 7'' petty criminal who encounters another lowlife with large ambitions: George Rackley has a fund of criminal schemes, but his Big Idea is to kidnap the children of rich parents and hold them to ransom. What ensues is shot through with the masterly orchestration of tension that is Stephen King's métier. If there are some undigested influences here (the two protagonists -one massive and powerful, the other the brains of the duo -owe more than a little to George and Lenny in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men ), the personality that comes through (leaving aside the Richard Bachman nom-de-plume) is Stephen King, and followers of his work will need no persuasion to pick up this one. -Barry Forshaw

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Reseña del editor

Colosse au cerveau ramolli par les raclées paternelles, Clay Blaisdell, dit Blaze, enchaîne les casses miteux. Son meilleur pote, George, lui, est un vrai pro, avec un plan d’enfer pour gagner des millions de dollars : kidnapper le dernier-né des Gerard, riches à crever. Le seul problème, c’est qu’avant de commettre le « crime du siècle », George s’est fait descendre. Mort. Enfin, peut-être... Ce suspense mené en quatrième vitesse, vrai roman noir, rappelle le meilleur de Jim Thompson ou de James Cain. Un inédit de King / Bachman miraculeusement retrouvé.

Un roman noir de la plus belle eau, dans la lignée de James T. Farrell ou du Steinbeck des Souris et des hommes. Puissant, émouvant... Booklist.

Biografía del autor

Né en 1947 à Portland (Maine), Stephen King a connu son premier succès en 1974 avec Carrie. En une trentaine d’années, il a publié plus de cinquante romans et autant de nouvelles, certains sous le pseudonyme de Richard Bachman. Il a reçu de nombreuses distinctions littéraires, dont le prestigieux Grand Master Award des Mystery Writers of America pour l’ensemble de sa carrière en 2007. Son œuvre a été largement adaptée au cinéma.

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• Verlag: LGF/Le Livre de Poche
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 2253022632
• ISBN 13: 9782253022633
• Einband: Libro
• Anzahl der Seiten: 346