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King, Stephen. Gerald's Game. 1992. Viking. First Edition with full 10-digit number line beginning with 1. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, with "0992" on inner front flap. 6.5 X 9.5. [5] illustrated title page; publisher page; [3] half-title; map of Maine; pp.1-332; [4]. Black boards with cloth spine and iconic "SK" in red on front board. Title. author and publisher on spine in red, as well as eclipse design. Minimal signs of shelf wear to top and tail or spine. Some loosening to spine, caused by improper storage.
Gerald's Game follows Jessie Burlingame, a woman who's husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed. "Stephen King gives us his most ambitious work yet - a novel of brilliant intensity, excruciating suspense, and uncanny insight into the dark corners of the indomitable female psyche. […] Nothing he [King] has written before will prepare readers for the challenges of Gerald's Game. […] It is nerve-racking excavation of the deepest layers of a woman's fear and courage." Gerald's Game was made into a film for Netflix in 2017.
Stephen King (1947 - ) is an American author, best known as the King of Horror. Having written nearly 70 books under several different names, King s work is known the world over. King s work has ben adopted to fit screens large and small, as well as comics.
Synopsis
Gerald's Game (1992) is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King. The story is about a woman who accidentally kills her husband while she is handcuffed to the bed as part of a bondage game, and, following the subsequent realisation that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PL-019
- Title
- Gerald's Game
- Author
- King, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Date Published
- 1992
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror/Thriller;
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