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In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookshops and beg them not to buy it. The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil. "I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke." There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona WebsterRead More

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  • Foyles

    'The Stand is a masterpiece' -The Guardian Set in a plague-decimated US, King's thrilling American fantasy epic, is a Classic. First come the days of the plague. Then come the dreams. Dark dreams that warn of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms. When a man crashes his car into a petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He dies and it doesn't take long for the plague which killed him to spread across America and the world.

  • Play

    One man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident carrying with him the deadly virus known as Captain Tripps a rapidly mutating flu that - in the ensuing weeks - wipes out most of the world's population. In the aftermath survivors choose between following an elderly black woman to Boulder or the dark man Randall Flagg who has set up his command post in Las Vegas. The two factions prepare for a confrontation between the forces of good and evil.

  • TheBookPeople

    First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams.Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.

  • Blackwell

    'Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat' (Guardian) - Stephen King is an American Dickens of our time First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man.

  • BookDepository

    The Stand : Paperback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9781444720730 : 1444720732 : 12 May 2011 : 'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a virus-decimated US, King's thrilling American fantasy epic, is a Classic.

  • ASDA

    Hodder are boosting Stephen King's backlist with new covers new author brand lettering and a marketing campaign which directs readers to the right King title for them.

  • 1444720732
  • 9781444720730
  • Stephen King
  • 12 May 2011
  • Hodder & Stoughton
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 1344
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