If It Bleeds, De Stephen King. Editorial Pocket Books, Tapa Blanda En Inglés

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TÍTULO: If It Bleeds
Idioma: Inglés

Autor: Stephen King
Editorial: Pocket Books
Páginas: 480
Tamaño: 11 x 19 cm

Includes “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone”—now a Netflix original film starring Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell.

From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new novellas that reaffirm his mastery of the form (The Washington Post).

Readers admire Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own distinct pleasure, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been adapted into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption).

The four tales in If It Bleeds prove as memorable as their predecessors. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition.

If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. One of King’s great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, it is abundant. There is also evil’s opposite, which in King’s fiction often manifests as friendship. Holly is reminded that not only is string_containing friendshipfirming but can be saving. Young Craig befriends Mr. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward.