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Carrie
- Author
- Stephen King
- Narrator
- Sissy Spacek
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 2 August 2012
- Run Time
- 7 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Carrie is Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as a global icon.
In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power.
Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror.
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Carrie White is no ordinary girl.
Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.
To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first
step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.
But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she
is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . .
Critics Review
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[A] genius for storytelling
Daily Mirror
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One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep
Sunday Express
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Guaranteed to chill you
New York Times
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How can it be that it was published 50 years ago? Even though it was written in an age before smartphones and social media, the specific teenage-girl pain of the novel feels fresh and stinging . . . Carrie reads like a book written without fear, the calling card of a writer with immense storytelling power . . . One of my favourite things about the novel is its unusual scrapbook effect. Interspersing the story with snippets and clippings from fictionalised articles about the "Carrie phenomenon", King creates a sense of foreboding . . . a great work: haunting, hard to stop reading, close to the bone. And still exhilarating, half a century later
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King is telling us something about the alienation of the outsider, and the cruelty of those who keep them out. But morality aside, it's a revenge fantasy. That's the enduring appeal of Carrie. When King was first conceptualising Carrie, a character he said was inspired by a few tortured and abused girls he knew in his childhood and in his adult life as a teacher, he could never have known how powerful of an archetype he was articulating in her... This is a thriving narrative, but before there was that Texan star Pearl and that Promising Young Woman, there was the girl who could move things with her mind. There was Carrie
Varsity
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[A] genius for storytelling
Daily Mirror
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One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep
Sunday Express
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Details
- Author
- Stephen King
- Narrator
- Sissy Spacek
- Duration
- 7 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 August 2012
- ISBN
- 9781444764352
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Synopsis
The Sunday Times bestseller is now a New Original Series from visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan, coming soon to Prime Video.Carrie is Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as a global icon.In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror.***Carrie White is no ordinary girl.Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the firststep towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as sheis forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . .
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