书名：Misery危情十日苦难

作者：Stephen King 

出版社名称：Hodder 

出版时间：2011 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781444720716 

商品尺寸：13 x 2.3 x 19.7 cm 

包装：平装

页数：400（以实物为准）Review

InMisery, as inThe Shining, a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.

Paul Sheldon, the hero ofMisery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard'sShe.

He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.

Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" best selling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever.

Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to somereal writing.

That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs.

The good news was that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news was that she was Paul's Number One Fan. And when she found out what Paul had done to Misery, she didn't like it. She didn't like it at all. And now he had to bring Misery back to life. Or else . . .

斯蒂芬·金，1947年生于美国缅因州波特兰市，后在缅因州州立大学学习英语文学。1973年出版首部长篇小说《魔女嘉莉》，随即大获成功。迄今已出版四十多部长篇小说和两百多篇短篇小说，代表作有《肖申克的救赎》《绿里奇迹》《它》《重生》《守夜》和“《黑暗塔》系列”等，被《时代》周刊誉为“无可争议的惊悚小说大师”。有超过百部影视作品取材或改编自他的小说。2003年获美国国家图书基金会颁发的“杰出贡献奖”，2004年获“世界奇幻文学奖”的“终身成就奖”，2007年获美国推理作家协会“爱伦·坡奖”的“大师奖”。《守夜》是他的首部短篇小说集，其中七成故事曾被改编为影视剧。

Stephen Kingis the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; Duma Key; Lisey’s Story; Cell; and the last three novels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower. His acclaimed nonfiction book On Writing is also a bestseller. In 2003, he was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.