Misery

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Guild, 1987 - Fiction - 320 pages
Paul Sheldon, the author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up to find himself the captive of Annie Wilkes, a menacing ex-nurse. Explaining that she is his greatest fan, Annie is nontheless outraged that her favorite character in all the world, Misery Chastain, has been killed off. Annie buys a typewriter and a ream of paper with which he is to resurrect the heroine.But writers have ways... (Viking-Fiction)

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About the author (1987)

Stephen King has written more than forty books and two hundred short stories. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story "The Man in the Black Suit."

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