![]() ![]() ![]() The AMC dealership was in an industrial park set off by itself on a patch of otherwise deserted land a mile from the strip of fast-food joints and gas stations that mark the eastern edge of Boulder. I thought about calling a cab but decided that the walk would be good for me. Everything was jake-I could pick up the car any time. Two days later the dealership called at about five in the afternoon. True embarrassment is standing in the middle of a busy downtown street, grinning idiotically while people examine your marooned car and the large greasy black thing lying under it. One day on our way back from lunch at a pizza emporium, our brand-new AMC Matador dropped its transmission-literally. ![]() In 1978 my family was living in Boulder, Colorado. In the biggest and most ambitious book of his career, Stephen King gives us not only his most towering epic of horror but a surprising reillumination of the corridor where we pass from the bright mysteries of childhood to those of maturity. but an unremembered promise draws them back, the present begins to rhyme dreadfully with the past, and when the Losers reunite, the wheels of fate lock together and roll them toward the ultimate terror. These six men and one woman have forgotten their childhoods, have forgotten the time when they were Losers. Bill Denbrough who now only stutters in his dreams. And Bill Denbrough, bestselling writer of horror novels. Eddie Kaspbrak, owner of a successful New York limousine company. On a spring night in 1985 Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six calls. It ended in August, with seven desperate children in search of a creature of unspeakable evil in the drains beneath Derry. That was the day Henry Bowers carved the first letter of his name on Ben Hanscom's belly and chased him into the Barrens, the day Henry and his Neanderthal friends beat up on Stuttering Bill Denbrough and Eddie Kaspbrak, the day Stuttering Bill had to save Eddie from his worst asthma attack ever by riding his bike to beat the devil. Urn:oclc:469520510 Republisher_date 20120418144916 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120416152402 Scanner began for the Losers on a day in June of 1958, the day school let out for the summer. Jack lights out - The Alhambra Inn and Gardens - The funnel opens - Speedy Parker - Jack goes over - Jack and Lilly - Interlude : Sloat in this world (I) - The road of trials - The Queen's pavillion - Farren - The Oatley Tunnel - Jack in the pitcher plant - Elroy - The death of Jerry Bledsoe - Jack goes on the market - The men in the sky - Buddy Parkins - Snowball sings - Wolf - Interlude : Sloat in this world (II) - Wolf and the herd - Wolf goes to the movies - Jack in the box - A collision of worlds - Taken by the law - The Sunlight Home - The sermon - Ferd Janklow - Jack names the planets - Jack and Wolf go to Hell - Wolf in the box - Jack lights out again - Jack's dream - Richard at Thayer - Thayer gets weird - Thayer goes to Hell - "Send out your passenger!" - Richard in the dark - Sloat in this world/Orris in the Territories (III) - Anders - Interlude : Sloat in this world (IV) - The Blasted Lands - Jack and Richard go to war - Richard remembers - The end of the road - Point Venuti - Speedy on the beach - Interlude : Sloat in this world (V) - The Black Hotel - Jack and the Talisman - News from everywhere - The earthquake - In which many things are resolved on the beach - Another journey - Journey's endĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:16:06 Boxid IA177101 Boxid_2 CH102001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donor For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm But for Jack everything is about to change. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. ![]() Originally published: New York: Putnam, 1984 ![]()
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