George was somewhere in the dark.
An edition of Blaze
(2007)
Blaze
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by Stephen King
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Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. -- known as Blaze -- and of the crimes committed by him and against him.
Blaze has been mentally challenged since childhood when his father threw him down the stairs. After escaping an abusive detention center for boys, he hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal, and enters a life of scams and robberies. When George is killed and Blaze is left on his own, he becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature.
Blaze is a crime story of amazing strength and sadness, shot through with a current of edge-of-the-seat suspense. No Stephen King -- or Richard Bachman -- fan should miss this gripping, unforgettable story. The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time, Stephen King's "dark half" may have saved the best for last.
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Action and adventure fiction, Kidnapping, Antiheroes, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Criminals, Suspense fiction, Adventure stories, Mentally ill men, Violence in men, Roman policier, Romans, nouvelles, Enlèvement (Droit pénal), Roman suspens, Fiction, suspense, Maine, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, Large type books, Missing persons, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general, Large print books, Mystery fictionPlaces
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2008-12, Éd. France loisirs
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Blaze: A Novel
2007 06, Scribner
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Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. As stated in the afterword of Different Seasons, it was written before Carrie. King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as 'Salem's Lot; the latter was chosen to be his second novel and Blaze became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the book for publication in 2007.
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