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Resumen del libro

'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement.

Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself. 'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P ALIGN=JUSTIFY x{0026}lt;B Stephen Kingx{0026}lt;/B es autor de más de sesenta libros, todos ellos best sellers internacionales. Sus títulos más recientes son x{0026}lt;I Hollyx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Cuento de Hadasx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Billy Summersx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Despuésx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I La sangre mandax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El Institutox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Elevaciónx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El visitantex{0026}lt;/I (cuya adaptación audiovisual se estrenó en HBO en enero de 2020), x{0026}lt;I La caja debotones de Gwendyx{0026}lt;/I (con Richard Chizmar), x{0026}lt;I Bellas durmientesx{0026}lt;/I (con su hijo Owen King), x{0026}lt;I El bazar de los malos sueñosx{0026}lt;/I , la trilogía Bill Hodges (x{0026}lt;I Mr. Mercedesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Quien pierde pagax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Fin de guardiax{0026}lt;/I ), x{0026}lt;I Revivalx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Doctor Sueñox{0026}lt;/I . La novela x{0026}lt;I 22/11/63x{0026}lt;/I (convertida en serie de televisión en Hulu) fue elegida por x{0026}lt;I The New York Times Book Reviewx{0026}lt;/I como una de las diez mejores novelas de 2011 y por x{0026}lt;I Los Angeles Timesx{0026}lt;/I como la mejor novela de intriga del año. Los libros de la serie La Torre Oscura e x{0026}lt;I Itx{0026}lt;/I han sido adaptados al cine, así como gran parte de sus clásicos, desde x{0026}lt;I Miseryx{0026}lt;/I hasta x{0026}lt;I El resplandorx{0026}lt;/I pasando por x{0026}lt;I Carriex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El juego de Geraldx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I La zona muertax{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P ALIGN=JUSTIFY x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P ALIGN=JUSTIFY En reconocimiento a su trayectoria profesional, le han sido concedidos los premios PEN American Literary Service Award en 2018, National Medal of Arts en 2014 y National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters en 2003.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P ALIGN=JUSTIFY x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P ALIGN=JUSTIFY Vive en Bangor, Maine, con su esposa Tabitha King, también novelista.x{0026}lt;/P