The Outsider
by Stephen King
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1501180983
- ISBN 13
- 9781501180989
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Scribner, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good +/near fine. A very good plus first edition 576 pp. (First Scribner hardcover edition May 2018) with full number line. Grey paper boards over black quarter cloth. Dust staining to foredge. Binding is solid and square. First section of book printed on beige paper with the remaining pages in white paper. Fold at crown of book and browning along rear spine edge about 2 1/2"' from top of book. In a near fine dust jacket showing a crease on rear flap. Jacket now protected in a clear archival cover. 576 pp. Octavo. Horrormeister King (End of Watch, 2016, etc.) serves up a juicy tale that plays at the forefront of our current phobias, setting a police procedural among the creepiest depths of the supernatural.If youre a little squeamish about worms, youre really not going to like them after accompanying King through his latest bit of mayhem. Early on, Ralph Anderson, a detective in the leafy Midwestern burg of Flint City, is forced to take on the unpleasant task of busting Terry Maitland, a popular teacher and Little League coach and solid citizen, after evidence links him to the most unpleasant violation and then murder of a young boy: His throat was just gone, says the man who found the body. Nothing there but a red hole. His bluejeans and underpants were pulled down to his ankles, and I saw something
. Maitland protests his innocence, even as DNA points the way toward an open-and-shut case, all the way up to the point where he leaves the stageand it doesnt help Andersons world-weariness when the evil doesnt stop once Terrys in the ground. Natch, theres a malevolent presence abroad, one that, after taking a few hundred pages to ferret out, will remind readers of Kings early novel It. Snakes, guns, metempsychosis, gangbangers, possessed cops, side tours to jerkwater Texas towns, all figure in Kings concoction, a bloodily Dantean denunciation of pedophilia. King skillfully works in references to current events (Black Lives Matter) and long-standing memes (getting plowed into by a runaway car), and hes at his best, as always, when hes painting a portrait worthy of Brueghel of the ordinary gone awry: June Gibson happened to be the woman who had made the lasagna Arlene Peterson dumped over her head before suffering her heart attack. Indeed, but overturned lasagna pales in messiness compared to when the evil entitys head caves in as if it had been made of papier-mâché rather than bone. And then there are those worms. Yuck.Not his best, but a spooky pleasure for Kings boundless legion of fans." -- Kirkus Reviews
Reviews
On Aug 28 2019, a reader said:
Very exciting story with parallel crimes. Who knows the killers? You have to finish the book to be clear!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1298
- Title
- The Outsider
- Author
- Stephen King
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1501180983
- ISBN 13
- 9781501180989
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
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