Description
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.xa0His recent work includes The Institute , Elevation , The Outsider , Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch , Findersxa0Keepers ,xa0and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winnerxa0for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named axa0top ten book of 2011 by Thexa0New York Timesxa0Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis forxa0major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipientxa0of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, thexa02014 National Medal of Arts, and thexa02003 National Book Foundation Medal forxa0Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.xa0He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife,xa0novelist Tabitha King.
Features & Highlights
- The “extraordinary” (
- Booklist
- ) novel of one man’s quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes…nothing at all. This #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, “pulsates with evil…it will have you on the edge of your seat” (
- Publishers Weekly
- ).
- “You can’t do anything…It’s gone too far. You understand, Halleck? Too…far.”
- Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He’s got it all—an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family…and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes a jaywalking old woman crossing the street. But Halleck has some powerful local connections, and gets off with a slap on the wrist…much to the fury of the woman’s mysterious and ancient father, who exacts revenge with a single word: “
- Thinner
- .” Now a terrified Halleck finds the weight once so difficult to shed dropping effortlessly—and rapidly—by the week. Soon there will be nothing left of Billy Halleck…unless he can somehow locate the source of his living nightmare and reverse what’s happened to him before he utterly wastes away…
