Urn:lcp:miserypenguinrea0000unse:lcpdf:3d00cabe-7cb4-4979-a1e4-98a396654379 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier miserypenguinrea0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2q7v4xmn2w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780130415462 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.19 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000514 Openlibrary_edition And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book-one of King's shortest, and best novels ever.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:24:27 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40868520 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a 'brand-name' bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her but all the same he needs her power. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa-a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter.

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