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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Fiction Books | | | Author: | Peter Straub, Stephen King | | Format: | Softcover | | | Publisher: | Ballantine Books | | Category: | Horror | | | ISBN-10: | 0345441036 | | Sub-Category: | -- | | | ISBN-13: | 9780345441034 | | Condition: | New | | | Publication Year: | 2002 | | | | | | Special Attributes: | -- | | | | | | |
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| Synopsis |
Called out of retirement to hunt a copycat serial killer dubbed the Fisherman, Jack Sawyer must once again descend into the parallel world of the Territories. This is the sequel to THE TALISMAN.
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658 pages |
| Height: |
7.0 in. |
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4.3 in. |
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1.5 in. |
| Weight: |
11.2 oz. |
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| Publisher's Note |
A retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the rural Wisconsin hamlet of Tamarack, Jack Sawyer is called in to assist the local police chief in solving a gruesome series of murders that causes Jack to experience inexplicable waking nightmares and draws him back to the Territories and an encounter with his own hidden past, in the long-awaited sequel to The Talisman. Reprint.
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| Industry reviews |
"...[A] thrilling epic packed with horrific monsters...and a surprisingly potent emotional payoff....Writing fiction is generally a solo exercise, and collaborations often smack of gimmickry. Yet this partnership brings out both writer's strengths--King's down-and-dirty storytelling and Straub's more sweeping literary style."
Entertainment Weekly - Bruce Fretts (09/21/2001)
It may be unsettling to the earlier novel's many acolytes, but I think that BLACK HOUSE is a BETTER novel than THE TALISMAN, one that is more wholly and comfortably what it is, and some kind of dark masterpiece. On the strength of what Straub and King have accomplished here, both in terms of narrative drive and genre manipulations--after all, this is a horror novel that couldn't really exist without the fantasy-novel template that THE TALISMAN provided--I'm ready for whatever the scribbling fellows are up to next."
Locus - Gary K. Wolfe (09/20/2001)
"There are weaknesses....In the end, however, we forgive these faults, because the community and the men, women and children who suffer to preserve it are so well drawn."
Times Literary Supplement - Roz Kaveney (10/26/2001)
"BLACK HOUSE is a thriller, so let it thrill you. But notice the slippage, into chaos and bricolage. It's the usual Kingly mix of high, low, and middle-management cultures, a bouillabaisse of Moby Dick and Alice in Wonderland...."
New York Review of Books - John Leonard (02/14/2002)
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Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2008 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
| Synopsis | Called out of retirement to hunt a copycat serial killer dubbed the Fisherman, Jack Sawyer must once again descend into the parallel world of the Territories. This is the sequel to THE TALISMAN.
| | Size | | Length: | 658 pages | | Height: | 7.0 in. | | Width: | 4.3 in. | | Thickness: | 1.5 in. | | Weight: | 11.2 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | A retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the rural Wisconsin hamlet of Tamarack, Jack Sawyer is called in to assist the local police chief in solving a gruesome series of murders that causes Jack to experience inexplicable waking nightmares and draws him back to the Territories and an encounter with his own hidden past, in the long-awaited sequel to The Talisman. Reprint.
| | Industry reviews | "...[A] thrilling epic packed with horrific monsters...and a surprisingly potent emotional payoff....Writing fiction is generally a solo exercise, and collaborations often smack of gimmickry. Yet this partnership brings out both writer's strengths--King's down-and-dirty storytelling and Straub's more sweeping literary style."
Entertainment Weekly - Bruce Fretts (09/21/2001)
It may be unsettling to the earlier novel's many acolytes, but I think that BLACK HOUSE is a BETTER novel than THE TALISMAN, one that is more wholly and comfortably what it is, and some kind of dark masterpiece. On the strength of what Straub and King have accomplished here, both in terms of narrative drive and genre manipulations--after all, this is a horror novel that couldn't really exist without the fantasy-novel template that THE TALISMAN provided--I'm ready for whatever the scribbling fellows are up to next."
Locus - Gary K. Wolfe (09/20/2001)
"There are weaknesses....In the end, however, we forgive these faults, because the community and the men, women and children who suffer to preserve it are so well drawn."
Times Literary Supplement - Roz Kaveney (10/26/2001)
"BLACK HOUSE is a thriller, so let it thrill you. But notice the slippage, into chaos and bricolage. It's the usual Kingly mix of high, low, and middle-management cultures, a bouillabaisse of Moby Dick and Alice in Wonderland...."
New York Review of Books - John Leonard (02/14/2002)
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