2020, ISBN: 9780345252937

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Pocket Books. Mass Market Paperback. 074343627X Stephen King fans, rejoice! The bodysnatching-aliens tale Dreamcatcher is his first book in years that slakes our hunger for horror the w… Plus…

Pocket Books. Mass Market Paperback. 074343627X Stephen King fans, rejoice! The bodysnatching-aliens tale Dreamcatcher is his first book in years that slakes our hunger for horror the way he used to. A throwback to It, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher is also an interesting new wrinkle in his fiction. Four boyhood pals in Derry, Maine, get together for a pilgrimage to their favorite deep-woods cabin, Hole in the Wall. The four have been telepathically linked since childhood, thanks to a searing experience involving a Down syndrome neighbor--a human dreamcatcher. They've all got midlife crises: clownish Beav has love problems; the intellectual shrink, Henry, is slowly succumbing to the siren song of suicide; Pete is losing a war with beer; Jonesy has had weird premonitions ever since he got hit by a car. Then comes worse trouble: an old man named McCarthy (a nod to the star of the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers) turns up at Hole in the Wall. His body is erupting with space aliens resembling furry moray eels: their mouths open to reveal nests of hatpin-like teeth. Poor Pete tries to remove one that just bit his ankle: "Blood flew in splattery fans as Pete tried to shake it off, stippling the snow and the sawdusty tarp and the dead woman's parka. Droplets flew into the fire and hissed like fat in a hot skillet." For all its nicely described mayhem, Dreamcatcher is mostly a psychological drama. Typically, body snatchers turn humans into zombies, but these aliens must share their host's mind, fighting for control. Jonesy is especially vulnerable to invasion, thanks to his hospital bed near-death transformation, but he's also great at messing with the alien's head. While his invading alien, Mr. Gray, is distracted by puppeteering Jonesy's body as he's driving an Arctic Cat through a Maine snowstorm, Jonesy constructs a mental warehouse along the lines of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. Jonesy physically feels as if he's inside a warehouse, locked behind a door with the alien rattling the doorknob and trying to trick him into letting him in. It's creepy from the alien's view, too. As he infiltrates Jonesy, experiencing sugar buzz, endorphins, and emotions for the first time, Jonesy's influence is seeping into the alien: "A terrible thought occurred to Mr. Gray: what if it was his concepts that had no meaning?" King renders the mental fight marvelously, and telepathy is a handy way to make cutting back and forth between the campers' various alien battlefronts crisp and cinematic. The physical naturalism of the Maine setting is matched by the psychological realism of the interior struggle. Deftly, King incorporates the real-life mental horrors of his own near-fatal accident and dramatizes the way drugs tug at your consciousness. Like the Tommyknockers, the aliens are partly symbols of King's (vanquished) cocaine and alcohol addiction. Mainly, though, they're just plain scary. Dreamcatcher is a comeback and an infusion of rich new blood into King's body of work. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly In an author's note to this novel, the first he's written since his near-fatal accident, King allows that he wrote the first draft of the book by hand. So much for the theory that it's word-processing alone that leads to logorrhea. Yet despite its excessive length, the novel one of the most complex thematically and structurally in King's vast output dazzles and grips, if fitfully. In its suspenseful depiction of an alien invasion, it superficially harkens back to King's early work (e.g., the 1980 novella "The Mist"), but it also features the psychological penetration, word-magic and ripe imagination of his recent stuff (particularly Bag of Bones). The action shuttles between present and past, following primarily the tribulations of a band of five males four regular guys from Derry, Maine (setting of King's It and Insomnia), and their special friend, Duddits, a Down's child (then man) with telepathic abilities. The first chunk of the text offers a tour de force of terror bound in darkest books carefully packed and shipped promptly . Very Good. 2001., Pocket Books, 2001, 3, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller! A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong? Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents. Frank barely speaks any Korean. He was born and raised in Southern California. Even so, his parents still expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl--which is a problem, since Frank is finally dating the girl of his dreams: Brit Means. Brit, who is funny and nerdy just like him. Brit, who makes him laugh like no one else. Brit . . . who is white. As Frank falls in love for the very first time, he's forced to confront the fact that while his parents sacrificed everything to raise him in the land of opportunity, their traditional expectations don't leave a lot of room for him to be a regular American teen. Desperate to be with Brit without his parents finding out, Frank turns to family friend Joy Song, who is in a similar bind. Together, they come up with a plan to help each other and keep their parents off their backs. Frank thinks he's found the solution to all his problems, but when life throws him a curveball, he's left wondering whether he ever really knew anything about love--or himself--at all. In this moving debut novel--featuring striking blue stained edges and beautiful original endpaper art by the author--David Yoon takes on the question of who am I? with a result that is humorous, heartfelt, and ultimately unforgettable., G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2020, 0, New York: Ballantine Book, 1977. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight square and clean, (ix) 643 pages, flat spine, Very Good condition, minor edge wear/rubbing, no names. Contents include: 6 Novels: Sub-Umbra, or Sport Among the She-Noodles; Miss Coote's Confession, or the Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid; Lady Pokingham, or They All Do It; La Rose d'Amour, or The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of Pleasure; My Grandmother's Tale, or May's Account of Her Introduction to the Art of Love; Flunkeyania, or Belgravian Morals / Short Stories: Young Beginners; An Adventure with a Tribade; The Sultan's Reverie; How He Lost His Whiskers; And many more / Ballads, Poems: Charlie Collingwood's Flogging; The State's New Duty; The Old Dildoe; The Good Nobleman; The Joys of Coming Together; Sweet Polly; The Novice; And many, many more / Plus "Letter from Harriet Keene," "Sally's Mistake," "Fables and Maxims." "Fowls and Pickled Pork," / Plus Limericks, jokes, witticisms, puns, ditties, acrostics, songs, facetiae, gossip, rumors, scandal, and much, much more. Check out the scans. . Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good., Ballantine Book, 1977, 3<

1977, ISBN: 9780345252937

New York: Ballantine Book, 1977. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight square and clean, (ix) 643 pages, flat spine, Very Good condition, minor edge wear/rubbing, no names. Co… Plus…

New York: Ballantine Book, 1977. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight square and clean, (ix) 643 pages, flat spine, Very Good condition, minor edge wear/rubbing, no names. Contents include: 6 Novels: Sub-Umbra, or Sport Among the She-Noodles; Miss Coote's Confession, or the Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid; Lady Pokingham, or They All Do It; La Rose d'Amour, or The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of Pleasure; My Grandmother's Tale, or May's Account of Her Introduction to the Art of Love; Flunkeyania, or Belgravian Morals / Short Stories: Young Beginners; An Adventure with a Tribade; The Sultan's Reverie; How He Lost His Whiskers; And many more / Ballads, Poems: Charlie Collingwood's Flogging; The State's New Duty; The Old Dildoe; The Good Nobleman; The Joys of Coming Together; Sweet Polly; The Novice; And many, many more / Plus "Letter from Harriet Keene," "Sally's Mistake," "Fables and Maxims." "Fowls and Pickled Pork," / Plus Limericks, jokes, witticisms, puns, ditties, acrostics, songs, facetiae, gossip, rumors, scandal, and much, much more. Check out the scans. . Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good., Ballantine Book, 1977, 3<

1963, ISBN: 0345252934

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Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York], EROTIC FICTION EROTICA CRITICAL LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE STUDIES VICTORIAN PORNOGRAPHY, Mass market paperback, "First [… Plus…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York], EROTIC FICTION EROTICA CRITICAL LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE STUDIES VICTORIAN PORNOGRAPHY, Mass market paperback, "First [Putnam] Paperback Edition", xxvIiii + 228 pages; spine creased and slanted, other light shelf wear, but tight in binding, very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for classic Victorian works of erotic fiction: The Pearl (ISBN 0345252934), and The Oyster (ISBN 0340623330), and My Secret Life (ISBN 0965429202), and Intimate Relations: The Memoirs of William Veitch.<

ISBN: 9780345252937

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Mass market paperback, "First [Putnam] Paperback Edition", xxvIiii + 228 pages; spine creased and slanted, other light shelf wear, but … Plus…

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Mass market paperback, "First [Putnam] Paperback Edition", xxvIiii + 228 pages; spine creased and slanted, other light shelf wear, but tight in binding, very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for classic Victorian works of erotic fiction: The Pearl (ISBN 0345252934), and The Oyster (ISBN 0340623330), and My Secret Life (ISBN 0965429202), and Intimate Relations: The Memoirs of William Veitch.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1963, 2.5<

1976, ISBN: 9780345252937

New York: Ballantine, 1976. First Edition mass market paperback, 512 pages; very light shelf wear, very light spine creases, light fore edge finger soiling, but very gently read, tight, … Plus…

New York: Ballantine, 1976. First Edition mass market paperback, 512 pages; very light shelf wear, very light spine creases, light fore edge finger soiling, but very gently read, tight, flat and square, otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for My Secret Life (ISBN 0965429202), and for more great Victorian erotica, see also our listings for The Oyster (ISBN 0340623330), and The Pearl (ISBN 0345252934), and Intimate Relations : The Memoirs of William Veitch.. Paperback Original. Soft Cover. Very Good., Ballantine, 1976, 3<