By Tony Magistrale
Stephen King: America's Storyteller explores the actual American-ness of Stephen King's paintings. it's the first significant exam to keep on with this defining topic via King's 40-year occupation, from his earliest writings to his most up-to-date novels and movies made up of them.
Stephen King starts by means of tracing Stephen King's upward thrust from his adolescence to his prestige as a some of the most well known writers in publishing historical past. It then takes an in depth examine the most important works from his canon, together with The Shining, The Stand, It, Dolores Claiborne, and The darkish Tower. In those works and others, writer Tony Magistrale makes a speciality of King's deep rooted experience of the yank event, exemplified through his clear-eyed presentation of our ancient and cultural foibles and scars; his gallery of not going friendships that go race, age, and sophistication barriers; and his transcendent portrayals of uniquely American survival instincts, fellowship, and acts of heroism from the least most probably of sources.
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What the Beatles were to rock music in the 1960s, Stephen King was to horror fiction and film in the 1980s; the influence of both helped to transform their respective genres. “The early eighties was a boom time in horror,” editor Jeanne Cavelos observed in 2002, “with the number of books being published quickly rising to ten times what it was a few years before (mainly due to Stephen King’s influence)” (Guran). Both the Beatles and King additionally mirrored the larger spirit of their respective times: the Beatles embodied the optimistic Age of Aquarius, while King’s sobering portrait of life in the eighties reflects a post-Vietnam/Watergate malaise, the bitter collapse of the American dream into nightmare.
This is not to say that he is less critical about small-town America, however. If Bangor is the inspiration for Derry, then it appears that Durham, Maine, the place where King spent most of his adolescence, may be the model for Castle Rock. Castle Rock, Haven, and Derry are all places where evil thrives in King’s narratives because most of the neighbors and civic-minded citizens lack the moral courage to stand up to tyrannical figures such as Leland Gaunt in Needful Things and Andre Lenoge in Storm of the Century.
King landed in brush and by some miracle of fate just missed striking his head on a large rock. He was rushed by helicopter to a trauma center hospital in Lewiston where he was treated for a compound fracture of his leg, a right knee reduced to “so many marbles in a sock,” a shattered hip, pelvis, and four broken ribs, a punctured lung, chipped spine, and head injuries serious enough to require dozens of stitches and render him unconscious. ” Smith pleaded guilty to a driving-to-endanger charge and received a six-month suspended sentence.