Misery (Magill Book Reviews)

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Paul Sheldon’s first memory is of “stopping"--of not being able to “pull another breath,” and, as he tells it, of being raped back into life by the stinking breath of his unknown caretaker. He does not know where he is, except that he is in a strange house, immobilized by his strange, newly shattered legs, and trapped in a deafening “thunderhead” of pain. As he slowly emerges from near death, he begins to remember who he is and what he was doing before the accident that caused his injuries: he is a phenomenally successful writer of adventure/romance fiction, and he had...

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