The Institute

Resumen del libro

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window.

And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talentstelekinesis and telepathywho got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, ';like the roach motel,' Kalisha says.

';You check in, but you don't check out.'

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here.

If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don't, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help.

But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

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