*****SPOILER ALERT FOR DESPERATION ***** Have you read this book? What did you think? Would you recommend it? Please discuss and enjoy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Published by Viking Press on September 24, 1996----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to rescuing a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive. They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from where he came. -Fun Facts: --It was published at the same time as its mirror novel, The Regulators. --It was made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skeritt and Steven Weber in 2006. --The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novels world also exist in the other novels reality, albeit in different circumstances. Inspiration: Stephen first came up with the idea for Desperation in 1991, when he was driving his daughters car cross-country. He passed through Ruth, Nevada, a small town with seemingly no inhabitants. He immediately thought, Theyre all dead, and then Who killed them? At that point, his Voice immediately answered The sheriff killed them all. In 1994, he decided to pursue this idea further while driving across country on his motorcycle during the Insomnia book tour. ------------------------------------------dedication: For Carter Withey cover artist: E.P. Dutton
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