Stephen King: It (Hardcover, 2017, Scribner)
Hardcover, 1168 pages
English language
Published July 16, 2017 by Scribner.
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one’s deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .
The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
Frightening, epic, and brilliant, Stephen King's IT is one of the greatest works of …
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one’s deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .
The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
Frightening, epic, and brilliant, Stephen King's IT is one of the greatest works of a true storytelling master. --front flap
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.
