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Desperation / Stephen King.

Summary:

An alien force is loose in Desperation, Nevada, and, having occupied the bodies of a succession of citizens (it needs to pass from one human vehicle to another because its vigor is so intense that its host hemorrhages to death within hours), has gruesomely slaughtered everyone else in town. Now in the body of a patrolling cop, it is picking up people motoring by on U.S. 50. Foremost among those are burned-out novelist Johnny Marinville and 11-year-old David Carver, who barely a year ago underwent a serious religious conversion and occasionally hears the voice of God. It is God--the God of the Christian Bible, both Testaments--Who eventually saves Johnny, David, and the rest of those who survive Desperation, but saves them only by means of their own free will and their own heroic and gory exertions.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0670868361
  • ISBN: 9780670868360
  • ISBN: 0451188462
  • ISBN: 0613025024
  • Physical Description: 690 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 1996.

Content descriptions

Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 30 18930.
Subject:
Traffic police > Nevada > Fiction.
Travelers > Nevada > Fiction.
Nevada > Fiction.
Genre:
Horror fiction.
Psychological fiction.

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  • 61 of 67 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Old Fort Branch Library FIC/KIN (Text) 37810433549549 Adult Fiction Available -

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