Thinner
By (Author) Richard Bachman
By (author) Stephen King
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
12th February 2013
14th June 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Horror and supernatural fiction
813.54
Paperback
352
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 28mm
248g
'Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek.
Billy Halleck, prosperous if overweight citizen, happily married, shuddered then turned angrily away. The old woman's death had been none of his fault. The courts had cleared him. She'd just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business.Later, when the scales told him he was losing weight, it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she should have been. But . . .'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence.Be warned, this is King at his very best. Superb X-Rated horror - Sunday Express
As a storyteller King is unbeatable - Daily MirrorStephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the greatest storytellers of our time', by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.' In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA.