"He builds up the suspense, holds back the dynamite until you're screaming for it, and then lets you have it."
-- Minneapolis Tribune
"It grabs you and holds you and won't let go...excruciating suspense...a genuine page-turner."
-- Chattanooga Times
The #1 bestseller-for King's rabid fans - A unique book for the serious Stephen King collector.
Stephen King. "Cujo" Mysterious Press. 1981. Signed Limited edition. Only 750 signed and numbered copies available in this edition. This is Number 275 of 750. Signed by Stephen King on special signature page.
Condition
Fine. Excellent original condition. Clean & straight boards. No writings or stampings. No attached
bookplates or signs of any removed. A well-cared for book, protected from any
potential damage. This book stands out as having had exemplary care. Square and
tight spine. Not price-clipped. Includes original clear dust-jacket protector. Excellent collector's grade hardcover book worthy of your Stephen
King library.
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Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it
quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son
trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting
the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is
definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you
can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the
parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the
poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just
right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a
monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is
reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how
significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it's as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.
Cujo is a horror novel by Stephen King, published by Viking in 1981. The book tells the story of the middle-class Trenton family and rural Camber clan in Castle Rock, Maine.
Mundane marital and financial difficulties plague disgraced advertising
man Vic Trenton and his adulterous wife Donna. Their domestic problems
are dwarfed by mortal danger when Donna and her four-year-old son Tad
are terrorized by a rabid St. Bernard named Cujo. The novel was adapted into a 1983 film of the same name.
The book is a semi-sequel to King's earlier work The Dead Zone.
"Cujo" makes several specific references to the events and characters
of "The Dead Zone," even so much as to lead the audience to believe
that Frank Dodd (committed suicide in The Dead Zone) is possessing Cujo. King made later reference to the dog in his 1983 novel The Body, fromDifferent Seasons.
A reference to Cujo is made in the short story Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, where it mentions Joe Camber getting killed by his own dog.
The name for the dog originated with King's research for a novel regarding the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. One of the members of the SLA, and Hearst's lover during her ordeal, was Willie Wolfe who took the name Cujo as his nom de guerre.
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