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The Dark Half

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The Dark Half by Stephen King follows the story of Thad Beaumont, a successful writer who decides to symbolically kill off his pseudonym, George Stark. However, Stark seems to take on a life of his own, leaving a series of murders in his wake. The novel delves into themes of duality and the struggle between good and evil within a person's psyche.
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The Dark Half

Thad Beaumont and the town of Ludlow, Maine thought the glamorous writer 'George Stark' was dead and buried. A killing spree forces them to think again.

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Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be . . .

The sparrows are flying again. The idea—unbidden, inexplicable—haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind.

Thad should be happy. For years now, it is his secret persona George Stark, author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever.

And yet . . . the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444708158

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2007

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hodder Paperback

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 480

About the Author

Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the greatest storytellers of our time', by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.' In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA.

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