Cell - Couverture souple

King, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340921536 ISBN 13 : 9780340921531

Editeur : Hodder Paperback, 2007

A propos du livre

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Cell 1

The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03 p.m., eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1. The term was a misnomer, of course, but within ten hours of the event, most of the scientists capable of pointing this out were either dead or insane. The name hardly mattered, in any case. What mattered was the effect.

At three o’clock on that day, a young man of no particular importance to history came walking—almost bouncing—east along Boylston Street in Boston. His name was Clayton Riddell. There was an expression of undoubted contentment on his face to go along with the spring in his step. From his left hand there swung the handles of an artist’s portfolio, the kind that closes and latches to make a traveling case. Twined around the fingers of his right hand was the drawstring of a brown plastic shopping bag with the words small treasures printed on it for anyone who cared to read them.

Inside the bag, swinging back and forth, was a small round object. A present, you might have guessed, and you would have been right. You might further have guessed that this Clayton Riddell was a young man seeking to commemorate some small (or perhaps even not so small) victory with a small treasure, and you would have been right again. The item inside the bag was a rather expensive glass paperweight with a gray haze of dandelion fluff caught in its center. He had bought it on his walk back from the Copley Square Hotel to the much humbler Atlantic Avenue Inn where he was staying, frightened by the ninety-dollar pricetag on the paperweight’s base, somehow even more frightened by the realization that he could now afford such a thing.

Handing his credit card over to the clerk had taken almost physical courage. He doubted if he could have done it if the paperweight had been for himself; he would have muttered something about having changed his mind and scuttled out of the shop. But it was for Sharon. Sharon liked such things, and she still liked him—I’m pulling for you, baby, she’d said the day before he left for Boston. Considering the shit they’d put each other through over the last year, that had touched him. Now he wanted to touch her, if that was still possible. The paperweight was a small thing (a small treasure), but he was sure she’d love that delicate gray haze deep down in the middle of the glass, like a pocket fog.

Revue de presse :

This is a Stephen King novel, so while it is very clever and brilliantly written, it is also bathed in blood...The denouement is satisfyingly explosive, but I promise you you won't use your mobile for days. (Guardian)

Very clever and brilliantly written . . . you won't use your mobile for days. (Guardian)

The true narrative artist is a rare creature. Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. I don't think it can be taught. Plenty of things about writing can be - but this cannot. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades. (The Times)

The true narrative artist is a rare creature. Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. I don't think it can be taught . . . Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades. (The Times)

What makes this one of his most poignant books is not the gore or the sinister threats of the near-articulate zombie called the Raggedy man. It is a father's helpless dread of what he has not been able to prevent. (Time Out)

What makes this one of his most poignant books is not the gore or the sinister threats . . . It is a father's helpless dread of what he has not been able to prevent. (Time Out)

Fans will rejoice that King has gone back to his horror-novel roots (Mark Billingham, Daily Mail)

King's genius for storytelling ensures there is plenty still to chew on. is King just scaring us into binning our mobiles? For now, I'm sticking to the landline. (Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror)

'King's genius for storytelling ensures there is plenty still to chew on. is King just scaring us into binning our mobiles? For now, I'm sticking to the landline.' (Daily Mirror)

It is a dynamic, riproaring read and at times also exceedingly funny. It comes complete with an ending of surprising emotion ... welcomed by King's millions of loyal readers. (Scotsman)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Paperback
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340921536
• ISBN 13: 9780340921531
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512