Book Description

Mouth-to-mouth, the woman had forced him back to life, pumping great sickly-sweet gusts of bad breath into him. Sickly-sweetm she smiled down at him, pushing the painkillers into his dry mouth with her big, work-coarsened fingers. Coyly, smiling, she pillow-plumped and nursery-talked and made sure he finished up every last little scarp.

He was a writer. She was his Number One Fan. She'd pulled him out of the car-wreck, brought him home, splinted and set his mangled legs. All he had to do in return was to write a very special book, just for her, all about her favorite character from his novels. One he'd killed off and now had to bring back to life.

Because if he didn't, if he was Bad and Didn't Do What Nurse Told Him, she would be cross - very cross - and do things that would make him scream and scream...

"An incredibly gifted writer"

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　------- Guardian

"As a storyteller, he is up there in the Dickens class"

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　------- The Times

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11.1

一九四七年出生于美国缅因州波特兰市，后在缅因州州立大学学习英国文学，毕业后因工资菲薄而走上写作之路。自一九七三年出版第一部长篇小说《魔女嘉莉》后，迄今已著有四十多部长篇小说和二百多部短篇小说。其作品是近年来美国畅销书排行榜上的常客，还被翻译成三十多种语言。有超过百部影视作品取材自他的小说。他因此被誉为“现代惊悚小说大师”。

一九九九年，斯蒂芬‧金遭遇严重车祸，侥幸大难不死。在康复后，他又立刻投入写作。二○○三年，他获得美国国家图书基金会颁发的“杰出贡献奖”。其后又先后获得世界奇幻文学奖“终身成就奖”和美国推理作家协会“爱伦坡奖”的“大师奖”。

在斯蒂芬‧金的众多作品中，以历时三十余年才终于完成的奇幻巨著“黑暗塔全系列”（共七卷）最为壮观，也最受金迷推崇，书里的人物与情节，散见于斯蒂芬‧金的其它小说中，堪称他最重要的作品。《杜马岛》是其二○○八年出版的新作，被评选为第二届黑色羽毛笔奖“年度暗黑小说”，并获得恐怖小说界最高荣誉——斯托克奖。

目前斯蒂芬‧金与妻子居住于缅因州。