Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, 1st Edition
Title:From A Buick 8.Hodder & Stoughton,2002.First edition,first printing.Hardcover, in illustrated jacket.404 pages. Author:Stephen King. Condition: FINE book, in a VERY GOOD unclipped jacket. Book is square, tightly bound, sharp corners. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Lightly age toned. Bright, glossy, unclipped jacket is free from tears,curling a little at the upper and lower edges, where there are also some light indentations.About this book: In Stephen King's From a Buick 8, a group of Pennsylvania State Troopers find, and keep secret, the Buick 8, a "car" that is a portal between our world and some world far more horrid. Animals and occasionally people disappear around the Buick 8 and every so often something unpleasant comes through from the other side. The alien monsters here are creatures of pure disgust; King terrifyingly argues here that somewhere in the universe there are things for which we can have no fellow-feeling. All of the narrators are marked by the Buick 8--it is a focus for personal disaster--but they believe, rightly, that they are the competent authorities, that to hand it over would make things worse. After the death of one of the original Troopers, the rest gather round his teenage son, and tell him the tale; this is a book about storytelling and about listening and about not hearing what you are told. As such, it is a worthy fictional companion to King's excellent On Writing; significantly, its considerable strengths come partly from King's imagination, partly from the technical mastery that lets him play the narrators off against each other, and partly from research, from King's own capacity to listen to real cops. --Roz Kaveney
Title:From A Buick 8.Hodder & Stoughton,2002.First edition,first printing.Hardcover, in illustrated jacket.404 pages. Author:Stephen King. Condition: FINE book, in a VERY GOOD unclipped jacket. Book is square, tightly bound, sharp corners. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Lightly age toned. Bright, glossy, unclipped jacket is free from tears,curling a little at the upper and lower edges, where there are also some light indentations.About this book: In Stephen King's From a Buick 8, a group of Pennsylvania State Troopers find, and keep secret, the Buick 8, a "car" that is a portal between our world and some world far more horrid. Animals and occasionally people disappear around the Buick 8 and every so often something unpleasant comes through from the other side. The alien monsters here are creatures of pure disgust; King terrifyingly argues here that somewhere in the universe there are things for which we can have no fellow-feeling. All of the narrators are marked by the Buick 8--it is a focus for personal disaster--but they believe, rightly, that they are the competent authorities, that to hand it over would make things worse. After the death of one of the original Troopers, the rest gather round his teenage son, and tell him the tale; this is a book about storytelling and about listening and about not hearing what you are told. As such, it is a worthy fictional companion to King's excellent On Writing; significantly, its considerable strengths come partly from King's imagination, partly from the technical mastery that lets him play the narrators off against each other, and partly from research, from King's own capacity to listen to real cops. --Roz Kaveney