There are piquant echoes throughout of earlier works – one episode is reminiscent of the Overlook hotel from The Shining with its unreal inhabitants: a Colorado setting and a hint of the supernatural.Īnd no Stephen King novel would be complete without scarifying bursts of violence. As well as being a reader of serious fiction and trying to write the great American novel, the lethal Billy suffers from PTSD and is as complex a character as anyone in the King canon. It is as if King is providing bonus material for all the academic theses written on his work, doing the homework in advance for students. Billy assumes the mantle of a novelist, engaged in writing his own autobiography (which, unsurprisingly, strays from the truth – but the truth, Billy decides, is to be discerned through fiction). Lowbrow stuff this is not: King is alerting us to a literary strand in his thriller.
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