Misery
New York: Viking Press, 1987. First edition. Hardback. Fine, bright hardcover in equally fine dust jacket. Jacket shows an illustration of a distraught man in a wheelchair, hovered over by the shadow of a figure with an axe. Photo of Stephen King on reverse. First edition. 310 pp. The basis of the 1990 movie of the same name, which starred Kathy Bates and James Caan. A lonely woman pulls famous author Paul Sheldon from the wreckage of his car after he slides off a snowy Maine road. But instead of rushing him to the hospital, his "Number #1 fan", Annie Wilkes, decides to nurse Paul back to health herself. Strong, lumbering psychotic ex-nurse keeps Sheldon wheelchair-bound, isolated, and drugged, until he writes a new novel just for her. Fine / fine. Item #E31165
ISBN: 9780670813643
Price: $75.00