Stephen King: IT (1986, Viking)
Hardcover, 1138 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1986 by Viking.
From the Flap:
It began for the Losers on a day in June of 1958, the day school let out for the summer. That was the day Henry Bowers carved the first letter of his name on Ben Hanscom's belly and chased him into the Barrens, the day Henry and his Neanderthal friends beat up on Stuttering Bill Denbrough and Eddie Kaspbrak, the day Stuttering Bill had to save Eddie from his worst asthma attack ever by riding his bike to beat the devil. It ended in August, with seven desperate children in search of a creature of unspeakable evil in the drains beneath Derry. In search of It. And somehow it ended.
Or so they thought. Then.
On a spring night in 1985 Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six calls. Stan Uris, accountant. Richie "Records" Tozier, L.A. disc jockey. Ben Hanscom, renowned architect. Beverly Rogan, dress …
From the Flap:
It began for the Losers on a day in June of 1958, the day school let out for the summer. That was the day Henry Bowers carved the first letter of his name on Ben Hanscom's belly and chased him into the Barrens, the day Henry and his Neanderthal friends beat up on Stuttering Bill Denbrough and Eddie Kaspbrak, the day Stuttering Bill had to save Eddie from his worst asthma attack ever by riding his bike to beat the devil. It ended in August, with seven desperate children in search of a creature of unspeakable evil in the drains beneath Derry. In search of It. And somehow it ended.
Or so they thought. Then.
On a spring night in 1985 Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six calls. Stan Uris, accountant. Richie "Records" Tozier, L.A. disc jockey. Ben Hanscom, renowned architect. Beverly Rogan, dress designer. Eddie Kaspbrak, owner of a successful New York limousine company. And Bill Denbrough, bestselling writer of horror novels. Bill Denbrough who now only stutters in his dreams.
These six men and one woman have forgotten their childhoods, have forgotten the time when they were Losers . . . but an unremembered promise draws them back, the present begins to rhyme dreadfully with the past, and when the Losers reunite, the wheels of fate lock together and roll them toward the ultimate terror.
In the biggest and most ambitious book of his career, Stephen King gives us not only his most towering epic of horror but a surprising reillumination of the corridor where we pass from the bright mysteries of childhood to those of maturity.
Ich habe das früher schon mal gelesen und vergessen wie ausschweifend das Buch ist, aber finde es ganz gut.
Romanzo che mi ha ricordato il film "I Goonies" del 1985, e che sfortunatamente ha un gravissimo difetto: in due casi parla di rapporti sessuali tra minorenni di dodici anni. Soprattutto per questo, non mi sento di assegnare un voto migliore. Inoltre alcune parti della trama non vengono sviluppate oltre a un certo punto, lasciandomi a domandarmi come si siano conclusi certi fatti. Detto questo, nel complesso è un bel romanzo che descrive magistralmente le vite di un gruppetto di ragazzi alle prese con i bulli della loro città, ma che presto dovranno confrontarsi con qualcosa di molto peggio delle angherie quotidiane di qualche teppista. Il tutto raccontato tramite lo stratagemma del flashback, visto attraverso gli occhi dei protagonisti ormai adulti, che a distanza di quasi trent'anni dovranno tornare a vedersela con i terrori che li avevano tormentati in gioventù.
