Carrie by Stephen
King
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Carrie by Stephen King - First edition
points of issue.
Year
Published: 1974
ISBN: 3404131215
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages:
199
Price:
$5.95
Total first printing published:
Unknown
Copyright
page: First edition is stated “First
Edition”
First Edition Total
Publication: Estimated to be 30,000
First Edition
Points of Issue: P6 printed on the last page of text
in the gutter on the left side of page 199.
Size:
5.75" x 8.5"
Bound:
Full bound in maroon cloth
Dedication: This is for
Tabby, who got me into it - and then bailed me out of
it.
Description: Stephen
King's first published novel.
This is a story of a
teenage girl, Carrie, with telekinetic abilities in the New
England town of Chamberlain in 1979. Carrie White is a shy
unpopular girl raised by an eccentric fanatical religious
mother. Teased and treated horribly by her classmates at her
senior prom Carrie uses her supernatural powers with
frightening and devastating results for her classmates. Carrie
uses here telekinetic powers to exact revenge not only upon her
classmates and school but the small pays a heavy toll as
well.
When Carrie’s horrific work
is done in Chamberlain she goes to battle with her religiously
fanatical mother with dire consequences.
This is King's first
published book and rocketed him to stardom. Receiving what was
then a huge $2,500 advance for this book, the paperback rights
were sold for a reported $400,000, King received half of this
payment.
The book was made into a
movie in 1976, produced and directed by Brian De Palma and the
script adaptation from the book written by Lawrence D.
Cohen.
Staring:
Sissy Spacek - Carrie White
Piper Laurie - Margaret White
Amy Irving - Sue Snell
William Katt - Tommy Ross
Betty Buckley - Miss Collins
Nancy Allen - Chris Hargensen
John Travolta - Billy Nolan
P.J. Soles - Norma Watson
Priscilla Pointer - Mrs. Snell
Sydney Lassick - Mr. Fromm
Stefan Gierasch - Mr. Morton
Michael Talbott - Freddy
Doug Cox - The Beak
Harry Gold - George
Noelle North - Freida
Cindy Daly - Cora
Deirdre Berthrong - Rhonda
Anson Downes - Ernest
Rory Stevens - Kenny
Edie McClurg - Helen
Cameron De Palma - Boy on Bicycle
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