The shining
The Overlook Hotel claimed the most beautiful physical setting of any resort in the world; but Jack Torrance, the new winter caretaker, his wife Wendy and their five-year-old son Danny saw much more than its splendor. Jack saw the Overlook as an opportunity, a desperate way back from failure and despair; Wendy saw this lonely sanctuary as a frail chance to preserve their family; and Danny?...Danny, who was blessed or cursed with a shinning, precognitive gift, saw visions hideously beyond the co…
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- Full title :The shining / Stephen King.
Summary
The Overlook Hotel claimed the most beautiful physical setting of any resort in the world; but Jack Torrance, the new winter caretaker, his wife Wendy and their five-year-old son Danny saw much more than its splendor. Jack saw the Overlook as an opportunity, a desperate way back from failure and despair; Wendy saw this lonely sanctuary as a frail chance to preserve their family; and Danny?...Danny, who was blessed or cursed with a shinning, precognitive gift, saw visions hideously beyond the comprehension of a small boy. He sensed the evil coiled within the Overlook's one hundred and ten empty rooms; an evil that was waiting just for them.
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- Publication Date:1977.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New English Library
- Place of Publication:Sevenoaks
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1977.
The Physical Object
- Description:447 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780743437493, 0743437497, 0450054780, 9780450054785, 0450032205, 9780450032202, 0385121679, 9780385121675, 0450049744, 9780450049743, 0450040186, 9780450040184, 0340920939, 9780340920930, 9780340951392, 0340951397
- oclc:ocn676832714
- Dewey Decimal:813/.5/4
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