Misery
Audiobook
Misery
He's stuck in a nasty trap. That woman is not normal.
Misery Chastain is dead. She was killed by Paul Sheldon - with relief and joy. For years, she was the heroine of his successful historical romances and brought him the admiration of hundreds of thousands of female readers and a life of luxury. However, as he turned forty, Paul decided to start writing more challenging literature. He's been working on a new novel for two years, and he's finally proud of it. At the same time, he got hot with Misery by letting her drain his soul. Thank goodness they're both over it! Intoxicated by the feeling of liberation and champagne, Paul drives with both manuscripts along the mountain road. But the sports car starts dancing in the snowstorm and he is much more drunk than he knew. Later he will only remember the heavy dull thud and the second when the top and bottom of the world switched places. And then - He wakes up screaming and in pain in the remote cottage of the mighty Annie Wilkes. The good news is that his savior is a nurse with a bottomless supply of sleeping pills. The bad one is that she feels like she's Paul's number one fan. When she reads how he treated Misery, she doesn't like it. She doesn't like it at all!
The iconic thriller was based on King's own experience with drug addiction, and the obsession of some fans. In 1990, it was made into a film by director Rob Reiner with James Caan and Kathy Bates, whose role as Annie Wilkes won her a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
They wrote about the book:
The harrowing tale of imprisonment by a crazed groupie is one of the best thrillers ever written."
- The Guardian
A gripping book that keeps you in suspense until the last page.
- The New York Times
A razor-sharp novel.
- Kirkus Reviews
Stephen King
(* 1947) One of the most widely read American writers of our time, he is considered the "King of Horror". In 1970, he graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in English and Creative Writing, but it was during his studies that he began to make a name for himself as a short story writer. When he didn't get a teaching job after graduation, he worked in a laundry and supplemented his income by writing for men's magazines. When King's 1974 debut novel Carrie (no. 1992), became a bestseller and opened his access to the world of film (1976). Many of the prolific author's more than six dozen novels have been adapted into films - most notably 1977's The Shining (no. 1993), which the writer followed up in 2013 with the prose Doctor Spánek, among others. TO, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and Animal Kingdom. The author does not shy away from the field of crime either: The Edgar Award-winning trilogy about retired detective Bill Hodges (Mr. Mercedes, The Finder's Law, End of Watch, 2014-2016), which was the basis for the Mr. Mercedess starring Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway.
