George was somewhere in the dark.
An edition of Blaze
(2007)
Blaze
Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition
by Stephen King
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Richard Bachman, author of the bestselling novel Thinner and four thrillers that have sold millions in an omnibus edition entitled The Bach- man Books, now performs an eerie encore with Blaze—featuring a foreword by Stephen King.
Blaze is a story with an unlikely hero, Clay Blaisdell, nicknamed Blaze. He's not a particularly smart man—which probably has to do with the deep dent on his forehead bestowed upon him by his abusive father when he was a child. He may take bad advice from his best friend George's ghost and he may have broken the law one or a dozen times but, in his soul, Blaze is a good per- son—even when he decides to kidnap Joe Gerard IV, the 6-month- old heir to a Maine shipping fortune.
Leave it to Richard Bachman to make this lifetime criminal one of the most heartbreakingly sympathetic characters we've seen in a long time.
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Action and adventure fiction, Kidnapping, Antiheroes, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Criminals, Suspense fiction, Adventure stories, Mentally ill men, Violence in men, Roman policier, Romans, nouvelles, Enlèvement (Droit pénal), Roman suspens, Fiction, suspense, Maine, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, Large type books, Missing persons, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general, Large print books, Mystery fictionPlaces
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Blaze: A Novel
2007-06, Scribner
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Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. As stated in the afterword of Different Seasons, it was written before Carrie. King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as 'Salem's Lot; the latter was chosen to be his second novel and Blaze became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the book for publication in 2007.
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