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1981, Stephen King "Cujo"
Signed Limited Edition
#282 of 750
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Publisher: Mysterous Press
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: dj/HC
Signed: Signed by author
Edition: First Edition
Stephen King. "Cujo" Mysterious Press. 1981. Signed Limited edition. Only 750 signed and numbered copies available in this edition. This is #282/750. Signed by Stephen King on special signature page.
Condition
Fine. Excellent original condition. Clean & straight boards. No writings or stampings. No attached bookplates or signs of any removed. A well-cared for book, protected from any potential damage. This book stands out as having had exemplary care. Square and tight spine. Not price-clipped. Includes original clear dust-jacket protector. Small bump to slipcase, otherwise an excellent collector's grade hardcover book worthy of your Stephen King library. Fine.
Cujo is a horror novel by Stephen King, published by Viking in 1981. The book tells the story of the middle-class Trenton family and rural Camber clan in Castle Rock, Maine. Mundane marital and financial difficulties plague disgraced advertising man Vic Trenton and his adulterous wife Donna. Their domestic problems are dwarfed by the mortal danger when Donna and her four-year-old son Tad are terrorized by a rabid St. Bernard named Cujo. The novel was adapted into a 1983 film of the same name.
The book is a semi-sequel to King's earlier work The Dead Zone. The book makes several specific references to the events and characters. Even so much to lead the audience to believe that Frank Dodd (killed in The Dead Zone) is possessing Cujo. King made later reference to the dog in his 1983 novel Pet Sematary, in which a character briefly alludes to "a big old St. Bernard (that) went rabid downstate a couple of years ago and killed four people", a clear allusion to the events of Cujo, and in his later novel Needful Things.
The name for the dog originated with King's research for a novel regarding the Symbionese Liberation Army and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. One of the members of the S.L.A., and Hearst's lover during her ordeal, was Willie Wolfe who took the name Cujo as his nom de guerre. This research also led King to write The Stand. Due to the popularity of King's novel and the subsequent film adaptation, the name of "Cujo" has since entered the realm of popular culture as a generic term or sarcastic insult in reference to a psychotic, violent, or imbalanced dog. It also is the nickname given to National Hockey League goalie Curtis Joseph, whose customized goalie masks feature drawings of ravenous dogs.
In his semi-biographical book On Writing, King said he wrote the book during the peak of a period of drug and alcohol abuse. He wrote that he remembered very little of writing Cujo as a result, one of his great regrets.
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