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Ron McLarty (narrator) and
Richard Bachman
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
January 22, 2008
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780743572705
ISBN-10
074357270X
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 6 in.
Weight
0.24 lbs.
Original list price
$24.95
Other format details
audio
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Sleeping Beauties: A Novel | It: A Novel | Gwendy's Button Box: Includes bonus story "The Music Room" | End of Watch: A Novel (Hodges) | Finders Keepers | Riding the Bullet | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Just After Sunset | Doctor Sleep
Sleeping Beauties: A Novel | It: A Novel | Gwendy's Button Box: Includes bonus story "The Music Room" | End of Watch: A Novel (Hodges) | Finders Keepers | Riding the Bullet | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Just After Sunset | Doctor Sleep
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine's Fogler Library ("How did this get here?!"), and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published.
Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. -- of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs -- and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own.
He becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature. This is a crime story of surprising strength and sadness, with a suspenseful current sustained by the classic workings of fate and character -- as taut and riveting as Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine's Fogler Library ("How did this get here?!"), and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published.
Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. -- of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs -- and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own.
He becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature. This is a crime story of surprising strength and sadness, with a suspenseful current sustained by the classic workings of fate and character -- as taut and riveting as Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
Editions
Hardcover
With Stephen King (other contributor) |
from Borders Group Inc (June 1, 2009)
9780681475083 | details & prices | 285 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $5.99
With Stephen King (other contributor) |
from Scribner (June 12, 2007)
9781416554844 | details & prices | 285 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, a crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.
About: Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, a crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.
Paperback
from Hodder & Stoughton (February 21, 2008)
9780340952245 | details & prices | 352 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $11.85
This edition also contains Blaze
This edition also contains Blaze
from Simon & Schuster (February 1, 2008)
Reprint edition from Pocket Books (January 22, 2008)
9781416555049 | details & prices | 373 pages | 4.00 × 7.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $9.99
About: Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, an evocative crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.
About: Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, an evocative crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Ron McLarty (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster (January 22, 2008)
9780743572705 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.24 lbs | List price $24.95
About: The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time.
About: The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time.
With Ron McLarty (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster (June 12, 2007)
9780743569781 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, a crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.
About: Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, a crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.
from Hodder & Stoughton (June 12, 2007)
9781844566297 | details & prices | 5.75 × 5.00 × 1.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $53.05
This edition also contains Blaze, Blaze
About: At 6'7'and just under 300 lbs, Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers were just small-time until he met George Rackley.
This edition also contains Blaze, Blaze
About: At 6'7'and just under 300 lbs, Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers were just small-time until he met George Rackley.
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