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Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine.
Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead.
This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies 'the womblike dungeon' of his imagination." --Fiona Webster
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be . . .The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind.Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever.And yet . . . the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world. Thad Beaumont and the town of Ludlow, Maine thought the glamorous writer 'George Stark' was dead and buried. A killing spree forces them to think again. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781444708158
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Book Description Condition: New. Hodder are boosting Stephen King's backlist with new covers, new author branding and a marketing campaign that directs readers to the right King title for them. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 324. 2011. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # 9781444708158
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Thad Beaumont and the town of Ludlow, Maine thought the glamorous writer 'George Stark' was dead and buried. A killing spree forces them to think again. Seller Inventory # B9781444708158