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Carrie
By (Author) Stephen King
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
8th November 2011
31st May 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
813.54
Paperback
272
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 24mm
200g
An exciting reissue of Stephen King's debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name.
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 . . .[A] genius for storytelling - Daily Mirror
One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep - Sunday ExpressStephen 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.