From a Buick 8
by:
Stephen King (author)
Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 blue Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like... There is a terrifying secret shrouded in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret which, for the past twenty years, has drawn the...
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Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 blue Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like...
There is a terrifying secret shrouded in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret which, for the past twenty years, has drawn the troopers, territied yet irresistibly tempted, to look at its beautiful chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system.
Now young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's the boy's way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick.
One day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. And like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir...
źródło opisu: Hodder and Stoughton
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0340770708
Publisher: HODDER AND STOUGHTON
Pages no: 467
Edition language: English
Series: KOLEKCJA MISTRZA GROZY (#8)
An einer Tankstelle in Pennsylvania. Ein Buick fährt an die Zapfsäule, der Fahrer - ganz in Schwarz - verschwindet, und die State Trooper bleiben mit einem gefährlichen Mysterium zurück ... "Der Buick" ist ein ungewöhnlicher Horror-Roman von Stephen King, dem es zwar nicht an schriftstellerischem Kö...
It does OK. There are some excellent passages on the relationship of the old with the young, and curiosity, and trying to find meaning to things that have no answers. And eldritch horror galore. Not one of those "Help me, I can't stop reading" page-turners that sometimes King pops on you, though...
There are many problems with this book, but they can all be summed up with a quote from the actual text:From page 297 of the hardcover, third paragraph, starting fourth sentence in: But--this is important--tell me a story, one that has a beginning and a middle and an end where everything is explaine...
There was something eerily familiar about the description of the Buick Roadmaster in this book that, at first, I just couldn't quite put my finger on. I just knew I'd read something about classic American cars that looked almost-but-not-quite-the-real-deal in a King book before.Then it hit me: Can-T...
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