Carrie
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • New Original series from visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan coming soon to Prime Video. • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • “Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever” (Esquire) with a chilling vision of a world where bullies rule—and one girl’s secret power turns her into a weapon of terror.
“A master storyteller.” —The Los Angeles Times • “Guaranteed to chill you.” —The New York Times • "Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." —Chicago Tribune
Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother’s religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she’s kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem.
When Carrie finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, she feels like she’s finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates’ vicious taunts is over . . . until a cruel, unexpected prank unleashes the full destructive potential of her gift.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Gritty, empathetic, and terrifyingly raw, Stephen King’s debut novel has become an enduring modern-horror classic. Carrie White’s teenage life is already miserable. At school, her classmates bully her relentlessly. At home, her mother channels her religious zealotry and unstable emotions into brutal, never-ending abuse. Hard as it is to believe, Carrie’s volatile underlying telekinetic abilities may be the least of her worries. That’s the brilliant thing about this chilling novel. The powers Carrie has long held dormant are certainly freaky (especially as she reaches a breaking point and starts to lash out), but King makes his heroine’s everyday suffering feel so violently, suffocatingly real, her abusers are the real sources of horror. This dark and complicated classic was way ahead of its time.
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.
