Carrie
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Now with a stunning new cover look for the 50th Anniversary comes Stephen King's legendary debut.
Carrie White is no ordinary girl.
Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.
To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first
step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.
But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she
is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The original actress to play Carrie, Sissy Spacek, narrates this audio tie-in to the new film version of King's classic novel. Her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1976 motion picture made her the iconic image of the author's young heroine whose terrifying telekinetic power is unleashed by the viciousness of ultra-mean teens and the insane demands of her fanatically religious mother. Here, while easily recreating the moods of that odd young girl, whose helpless confusion and despair eventually morph into childish delight in her talent for destruction, Spacek just as successfully takes on the personae of the small town's other disparate residents. King's fiction is constructed of dramatic sequences interspersed with documentary-like accounts of events leading up to Carrie's horrific vengeance. The actress moves smoothly from the magazine, newspaper, and official reports to dramatic scenes. Teenagers (some down-to-earth, some unpleasantly arrogant) teachers, moms, matrons, cops, the town drunk Spacek finds a voice for each of them. And those voices are so dramatically evoked that, if their speech carries a trace of her native Texas drawl in lieu of a Maine accent, no one, including the author, is likely to complain. King reads an introduction in which he describes the book's origin, his concerns about writing his first novel, especially one told from a feminine perspective, and, finally, how it's critical and popular success changed his life.
Customer Reviews
Carrie on
As Stephen kings first published book it tells the story of a young girl who gets mercilessly bullied by almost everyone around her, whether that be at home or at school. Now as a Stephen king book you’re probably expecting the horror to come from monsters or killer clowns, but the monsters in this book are just people being people, showing you the affects of bullying on a young girl going through puberty. As someone who was bullied through school myself, I found myself cheering and rooting for Carrie to get that happy ever after ending, but alas this is a Stephen king novel and happy ever afters should rarely be what you expect by the end of one his books.
Very Good
The book is very good, enjoyed it and the film. The book is a lot more violent at the end compared to the film.
The reason why I didn't give it 5 stars is because there are a lot of spelling mistakes which was putting me off. I actually underlined them all as I went along, the book could do with a quick update.
Mark
Short story stretched into a novel
I have read a few of Stephen Kings books and I’ve absolutely loved them. This was a short story unnecessarily stretched into a novel. It wasn’t particularly well written and the jump between the different narratives was honestly confusing and made the book seem disjointed.