Different Seasons was published between Cujo and Christine, but it was written much earlier, back when King was perhaps more in control of what he was actually doing. Still, the books came, mainly because he had them squirrelled away. They were well-hidden – and I'll talk more about that come Tommyknockers time – but they were there. He had his vices at this point, of course. He wasn't universally loved, but he was universally sold, and that was probably enough for him. It will keep readers up late.and will have them looking both ways as they cross the street after dark.The easiest period of Stephen King's writing to talk about is his early years. In Christine, Stephen King has returned to the full-fledged novel of supernatural horror for the first time since The Shining. Or is that only imagination? Dennis continues to hope so.and then people begin to die on Libertyville's dark suburban streets and roads.and the time comes when Dennis can no longer deny the horrifying truth: Christine is alive. as Arnie sets feverishly to work on the seemingly hopeless job of resorting Christine, Christine begins to develop a terrible life of her own. She is no ordinary car, this white-over-red two-toned survivor of a time when high-test gasoline was priced at a quarter a gallon and speedometers were calibrated all the way up to a hundred and twenty miles an hour.a time when rock and roll in all its first crude power ruled America.a time when speed was king.Īrnie Cunningham is determined to have Christine at any price, and little by little, Dennis and Leigh begin to suspect that the price of his growing obsession may be terrifyingly high, its result blackly evil. 'Cars are girls,' Leigh Cabot says, and the dark force in Stephen King's new novel is a 1958 Plymouth named Christine. There's a fourth here, the second lady, the dark lady.

Just another lovers' triangle, you say? Not quite. Scene: a middle-class suburb of Pittsburgh.Ĭast of characters: Arnie Cunningham, a bookish and bullied high school senior Dennis Guilder, his friend and sometimes protector Leigh Cabot, the new girl in school, won by Arnie.but wanted by Dennis as well.

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