- Horror tales, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, horror
In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule.
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Grave, intimate, bleak and earnest.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Straub
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 507
- Publisher
- Time Warner Paperbacks, The Stephen King Horror Library, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780708816042
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“One day early in October Frederick Hawthorne, a seventy-year-old lawyer who had lost very little to the years, left his house on Melrose Avenue in Milburn, New York, to walk across town to his offices on Wheat Row, just beside the square.”
Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 2 March, 1943, the first of three sons of a salesman and a nurse. The salesman wanted him to become an athlete, the nurse thought he would do well as either a doctor or a Lutheran minister, but all he wanted to do was to learn to read. When kindergarten turned out to be a stupefyingly banal disappointment devoted to cutting animal shapes out of heavy colored paper, he took matters into his own hands and taught himself to read by memorizing his comic books and reciting them over and over to other neighborhood children on the front steps until he could recognize the words. Therefore, when he finally got to first grade to find everyone else labor
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