Author: Stephen King
Translator: Jae-hyeong Jo
Publisher: Hwanggumgaji
6-volume set | 221*142mm
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About This Book
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review
of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in
bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't
ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his
fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is
accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and
44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an
apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I
guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a
chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of
the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came
from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order
destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with
which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable
characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way
it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar,
then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who
wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience
needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster (Amazon.com)
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