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Product Identifiers

PublisherGallery Books

ISBN-101501144529

ISBN-139781501144523

eBay Product ID (ePID)219708108

Product Key Features

Book TitleThinner

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHorror, Thrillers / General, Media Tie-In

Publication Year2016

GenreFiction

AuthorStephen King

Book SeriesThe Bachman Bks.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-000635

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe "extraordinary" ( Booklist ) novel of a cursed man's quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes...nothing at all. This #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, "pulsates with evil... and] 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..., This "superbly crafted...extraordinary" ( Booklist ) #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, "pulsates with evil...[and] will have you on the edge of your seat" ( Publishers Weekly ). 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...

LC Classification NumberPS3561.I483T45 2016