| Desperation(1996) |
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| Character List: David Carver Ralph Carver Ellie Carver Kirsten Carver Johnny Marinville Mary Jackson Peter Jackson Tom Billingsley Steve Ames Cynthia Smith On the way to Lake Tahoe for a much anticipated vacation, the Carver family is arrested for blowing out all four tires on their camper. Collie Entragian is the arresting officer, the self-made sheriff of a town called Desperation, Nevada, and the quintessential bad cop. Unbeknownst to the Carvers, Entragian regularly sniffs out passerbys on this stretch of road, and in fact has done in nearly every resident of his hometown. He can also change form and summon the help of creepy creatures, including scorpions, snakes and spiders. Though the family seems doomed, an unlikely hero emerges,a 11-year-old David Carver,who finds his own way to get around the Law. Desperation is the companion novel to King's The Regulators, which was published simultaneously under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Desperation is a great throw back to some of King's earlier work, like The Stand, and Pet Sematary, more horrror, unlike his more recent at the time novels, like Dolores Claiborne. |